BEN CONOLLY DREAMED OF BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL DRIVER...
Once he was old enough for his license. Diagnosed with leukemia at 15, the routine hospital procedure that followed would take that dream away from him; Ben awoke in the recovery room paralyzed from the chest down. After several dark days, Ben found Rob Parsons and the Chairslayer Foundation on the Internet and connected with Rob. The two stayed in touch until Ben’s parents could bring him out to California from the U.K. to get him in the driver’s seat of Rob’s custom hand-controlled drift car with the hope of giving him some purpose again. Once in the car with Rob, Ben picked up the use of the hand controls immediately and, with Rob’s instruction, was performing donuts and driving the car like a pro in no time, all while the Discovery Channel was out to capture every moment of this indelible day.