I WAS 14 WHEN I DESIGNED MY RACETRACK. I was given permission to use a corner of one of the fields on our farm, suitably far from the house so that the buzzing of my go kart wouldn't be heard. For days, I pored over track diagrams. Then I staked out my design. One of our farmers ran the bulldozer. We scraped off about six inches of grass and topsoil, creating a short straight and a few curves. It looked beautiful, but halfway through my first lap, I knew something was wrong. The straight was too short the turns too, tight and the earth, too soft, for the kart to build up any speed. My torque-less Westbend was made for pavement, not dirt. I had dreamed of the Nurburgring and Spa's daunting Eau Rouge, but all I could do was putt along. Worse, when my mother tried a few laps, a wheel dug in, and she flipped. It rained soon afterward, and deep ruts formed because I hadn't considered any drainage. Then when things dried out, weeds sprouted.
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机译：我设计RACETRACK时只有14岁。我被允许使用我们农场中一个田地的一个角落，该角落离房子很远，这样就不会听到我的卡丁车嗡嗡作响的声音。几天来，我一直在仔细研究航迹图。然后我放样设计。我们的一位农民经营推土机。我们刮去了大约六英寸的草和表土，形成了一条短的直线和一些曲线。它看起来很漂亮，但是在我的第一圈中间，我知道出了点问题。直道太短，转弯太紧，地面太软，无法使卡丁车加速。我的无扭矩Westbend是为铺路而不是泥土而制造的。我曾梦想过Nurburgring and Spa令人生畏的Eau Rouge，但我所能做的就是推杆。更糟糕的是，当我母亲尝试了几圈时，挖了一个轮子，她翻了个身。之后很快就下雨了，因为我没有考虑排水，所以形成了深厚的车辙。然后，当事情干dried时，杂草萌芽了。
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