“His car just headed straight for the wall,” Cassie exclaimed.

Moments like this are the cost of chasing speed. One wrong move can end it all. So why would someone keep climbing back into the driver’s seat?

For Atley Wiese, the answer goes back to childhood—when the roar of engines and the thrill of the track first captured his heart.

At just nine years old, he asked his parents, Cassie and Dayton, if he could take up a new hobby: race car driving. They were surprised.

“We were really reluctant at first because we thought he probably wasn’t going to like it,” Dayton admitted.

“He wasn’t wild, he wasn’t reckless… that just wasn’t his personality.”

“We just woke up one day and we were at peace with it,” Cassie added. “We thought, ‘This is what we should do.’”

In 2019, nine-year-old At

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