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Martinsville is the one on the top of my NASCAR "gotta get there someday" list followed by Dover and Daytona, but am more intent on the NFL bucket list right now. Other than Kansas, I haven't attended a live race in a three years (this will in all likelihood make four).
Also, I should point out as a disclaimer, I didn't own the car I got to drive at the short track and didn't do ANY wrench turning...."mechanicing" isn't my gig. I happened to live across from a guy when I was stationed there that had a open wheel car, he had a heart attack about a month before the season started, and his wife forbade him from driving....we got to talking and he gave me a shot (he didn't have many other options other than to park it and apparently it was his real passion so parking was not an option). I ran roughly 25 races for him that season. I only won twice and didn't finish in the top 10 in the season standings. For some reason he found another driver for '92.
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