The NASCAR All-American Series closes its season Saturday night at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring when 2009 champions will be determined in six divisions.
Motor Sports
This is what Tom Busch sees weekly that NASCAR fans don’t: one of the best Sprint Cup drivers in the world spending his day off under the hood of a car for six hours with a young driver eager for guidance.
NASCAR introduced the SuperTruck series in 1995 at the height of pickup truck popularity and with the idea of delivering fender-banging racing to small markets unlikely to host one of its major league Cup races.
So now we know. Mark Martin lives in Daytona Beach, Fla., an hour’s drive up Interstate 95 to reach the coastal town of St. Augustine, where about 12,000 people reside and you can find more than 20 species of crocodile at the local zoo.
Traffic jams are commonplace at major sporting events here, and the pattern won’t be broken Saturday before and after the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Before baldness became fashionable and a cheap way to keep pates neatly manicured, those of us who were already follicularly challenged didn’t appreciate taunts of “baldy,” “chrome dome” or “onion head.”
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