Raging Thunder

You’re strapped so tight to your seat that the smallest movement makes the belt chafe at your chest and neck. While a single drop of sweat lazily trickles down your temple and chin, you wonder yet again what it is you have gotten yourself into, but an intoxicating mixture of dread and excitement soon drowns out all other emotions. The red light shifts to yellow and your world shrinks to the width of a windscreen... each second stretches itself into an eternity. This is it, this is all you’ve been waiting for and all you have ever feared, rolled into one soul-searing moment. And then the green light hits...