My wife was reading one of the pot-boiler paperbacks that she devours while I'm ready my "guns 'n bombs" pocketbooks in the various coffee shops, when she asked, "Isn't the North American Road Racing Championship a real thing?"

"HUH? No way."

Turns out that a scene in her current book - Five in a Row by "Jan Coffey" - takes place at an SCCA race at Lime Rock. I put the author's name in quotes because "Jan Coffey" is actually husband-and-wife writers Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick, from CT. I figure one or the other knows someone I know. How else would they have even known about the NARRC?

K

PS - I checked to see if Amy, Bettencourt, or any of our other friends from the NE were mentioned in the book, and it appears that they aren't.