SHUT UP, HOLD ON... AND SHUT UP

摘要

SWOOSH, NO, NOT Nike's logo. Rather, that's what it felt like. Of course, you don't think of "swoosh" as being a feeling, especially the feeling of traveling 303 mph in a 1957 Chevrolet pickup. Certainly, it was a big swoosh, a loud, shrill swoosh, but a swoosh nonetheless. "Pretty much what I told you," said Hayden Proffitt II, the owner and driver of the 25,000-horsepower twin-jet pickup he calls the Hot Streak II, as we roll to a stop, awaiting a tow back to his pit. "All the drama happens behind us."