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NASCAR should abandon road racing

By Jerry Bonkowski
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, June 25, 2004

Trying to put a square peg in a round hole. That's what many people liken NASCAR Nextel Cup cars competing on road courses to. To them, it's just not a good fit. I'll admit I'm not exactly the biggest proponent of road courses, either. But at the same time, road courses present rare opportunities to make the Cup playing field as level as possible for most drivers. Only those drivers with substantial past experience in other forms of racing that do more than just turn left -- such as sports car ...

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