motor-racing

Updated: April 30, 2025

Aviation, motor-racing, mountain-climbing, big-game hunting, all seem commonplace and tame compared with the sensation of swinging helplessly in a shallow bathtub over half a mile of emptiness while an Austrian battery endeavors to pot you with shrapnel, very much as a small boy throws stones at a scared cat clinging to a limb.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Italy at War and the Allies in the West