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HBO’s latest racing documentary takes a deep-dive into the legacy of the British racing driver taken from IndyCar too soon.
Adam Cheek joined Frontstretch as a contributing writer in January 2019. A 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he covered sports there and later spent a year and a half as a sports host on 910 the Fan in Richmond, VA. He's freelanced for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch and also hosts the Adam Cheek's Sports Week podcast. Adam has followed racing since the age of three, inheriting the passion from his grandfather, who raced in amateur events up and down the East Coast in the 1950s.
HBO’s latest racing documentary takes a deep-dive into the legacy of the British racing driver taken from IndyCar too soon.
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