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When I was racing Jim Sutter's Cobra in the Nationals, I broke Mark Donohue's record by a full second. 
During that same race, I was lapping Bob Tulius in his white Dart. I saw him looking at me in his rear view mirror and I shot down underneath of him and he came down on top of me. He didn't realize I was going to take him at that point. I started to feather off a little, but I couldn't do much. I slid up into him and just tapped his rear bumper. A Cobra was aluminum and the door wrinkled like tissue paper. I won the race, broke the track record... and all Jim Sutter said was, "You bent it, you fix it!" 
 

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