Whodunit Wednesday - Race Car drivers

A need for speed - that’s what race car drivers have. I remember growing up hearing the names of Indy-car racers, hearing the title of a movie about the 24 hours of Le Mans and playing a simple game on a sheet of paper with pencils where we virtually raced “cars around the track we made. Racing was exciting. 

I remember names like Mario Andretti, Richard Petty, Niki Lauda, Emerson Fitipaldi, A.J. Foyt and the Unser brothers. 

Arie Luyendyk came along in the 90’s as a well-known Indy 500 racer. He was known as “the Flying Dutchman”. These days the names have all changed. In Formula 1, one of the names on everyone’s lips is “Max”. Max Verstappen is the son of former Formula 1 racer, Jos Verstappen. His father was known, but never did as well as Max. 

Since Max Verstappen is Dutch, much of the country has become followers of the sport. Groups of orange-clad fans show up at every race. And Max has done well. His racing style is explosive, challenging, aggressive. At the end of August he will be racing - along with all the others - at the Belgian Grand Prix which is held at Francorchamps, just miles away from where we hold our summer Bible camp weeks.