Streets May Be Mean, but Safe at 175 M.P.H.

Regarding your coverage of the recent Long Beach Grand Prix and the young black participant, why don’t you just report events as they happen?

Good thing I wasn’t in the race: You would have run out of words in your lead paragraph:

The 5-foot-6, left-handed, bald, first-generation, Irish Caucasian Catholic, native Pennsylvanian, functioning alcoholic with an upper plate and a history of changing jobs... JOHN E. HAROLD

San Dimas