Quentin Malast stares down the ramp, struggling to balance his tiny frame on a new racing bike.
Grandpa John Wirth tucks the bike’s rear wheel between his knees, calming the nervous 5-year-old.
“You want me to hold you? You got it … Can’t do it? Yes, you can do it,” the Odessa grandfather says, watching as the hydraulic metal start gate prepares to drop. “You got it. Now look down the track.”
The gate falls with a boom and … More