The Victory Lap

Race to the Chequered Flag

THE VICTORY LAP:

A brand new book by craig lock
Just got the title for a new book: ‘The Victory Lap’ (and/or the Lap of Victory)
As a sequel to The Greatest Race…the Race of Life
better start writing it then… OK. Here goes…
Craig has just started writing a new book (today) titled The Victory Lap - a novel…a true story (can a novel be a true story?)!

February 4, 2013

“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.”
-me Nov 2011

“Life is God’s novel; so let Ultimate Source write it, as it unfolds…”
- me (as inspired by the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer)
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Narrator's note:
He'll keep adding to this short e-book, as the story, the "never-ending story of life unfolds"...

PROLOGUE

THE GRAND PRIX DRIVER
One night a young boy had a dream...

It was one day in the year 1961, whilst driving home after the South African Grand Prix in East London, that the young boy told his father that Jim Clark would one day be the champion driver of the world. The young boy was in a bad mood, because the young Clark had beaten his hero, Stirling Moss. And for the next few years the young South African boy followed the rising Scot star ’s ascending career with great interest and pride. So that the new “shooting star” eventually usurped the place of the now retired old hero, Moss after his near fatal accident at Goodwood, UK…until it too was tragically extinguished in a minor race at Hockenheim, Germany in 1968. And that night the young boy lay on his bed and read the race program over again and again… then he fell asleep and dreamt in peace. One day…

P.S:
To dearest dad, see the dream never died...it’s just taken another course!

“Life is what happens in between making other plans.”

The Olympic Creed

A judge from the host country recites the Olympic creed, which appears on the scoreboard during the Opening Ceremony:

"The most important thing in the Olympic games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well."

Baron de Cobertin adopted this creed after hearing it from the bishop of central Pennsylvania, Ethelbert Talbot, when he spoke at a service for Olympic athletes during the 1908 London Games. Although there have been many permutations of this basic message throughout the history of the Games, the creed above, which was introduced at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, is still used today.
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EPILOGUE
(From To the End of the Rainbow)

THE GRAND PRIX CHAMPION
The Grand Prix driver crossed the finishing line on the ribbon of tarmac beneath the colourful banner stretching across the width of the oil and rubber smeared tarmac below to win the Monaco Grand Prix in the year that was 2009. Exhausted (both mentally and physically) and saturated with sweat, the champion driver in the theatre of speed raised his arms, in celebration, glorious triumph, knowing that he had driven his last.. and the best ever race in his long and illustrious career. As the great champion of the world drove under the banner proclaiming ‘Sport for Peace’ and received the chequered flag to the silent roars of the crowd, he also knew that a new chapter in his rather eventful life, yet also his greatest challenge lay in the days ahead.

“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.