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muserevival2017-01-11 03:30 am
shelbycobra) wrote in muserevival2017-01-11 03:30 am
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Shelby Manning is one of the hottest names in motorsports. She's a two-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion, an Indianapolis 500 and Rolex 24 at Daytona winner, and statistically the most successful female driver in the league. In seven days she'll be touching down in Miami to compete as part of Team USA IndyCar in the Race of Champions. She has all the reasons in the world to be cocky and self-obsessed, several of them sitting in her living room that she walks by every day.
But Shelby has made it a point not to start thinking too highly of herself. She did that before and it didn't end well. Maybe it was getting knocked on her ass and being technically homeless for a year, but she knows just how well all of those accomplishments are earned and how hard emotionally it was to check off each of those boxes. She knows that there are real legends who deserve the worship: Andretti, Mears, Foyt, Unser, Wheldon, Dixon. It'll be a while before her name is on that list if ever.
So she just walks past the trophy case and gets her morning coffee. And while she's drinking it if she happens to look that way she merely smiles. She's incredibly proud of everything that she has been able to do so far, but her biggest accomplishment might be just that she gets to do what she loves for a living, and there's always another race.
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Shelby Manning
Need for Speed OC
245 words
Shelby Manning is one of the hottest names in motorsports. She's a two-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion, an Indianapolis 500 and Rolex 24 at Daytona winner, and statistically the most successful female driver in the league. In seven days she'll be touching down in Miami to compete as part of Team USA IndyCar in the Race of Champions. She has all the reasons in the world to be cocky and self-obsessed, several of them sitting in her living room that she walks by every day.
But Shelby has made it a point not to start thinking too highly of herself. She did that before and it didn't end well. Maybe it was getting knocked on her ass and being technically homeless for a year, but she knows just how well all of those accomplishments are earned and how hard emotionally it was to check off each of those boxes. She knows that there are real legends who deserve the worship: Andretti, Mears, Foyt, Unser, Wheldon, Dixon. It'll be a while before her name is on that list if ever.
So she just walks past the trophy case and gets her morning coffee. And while she's drinking it if she happens to look that way she merely smiles. She's incredibly proud of everything that she has been able to do so far, but her biggest accomplishment might be just that she gets to do what she loves for a living, and there's always another race.
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Shelby Manning
Need for Speed OC
245 words