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Gilliland's life-changing moment building to 500 debut

By David Newton
ESPN.com

Saturday, February 17, 2007

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- David Gilliland was at a small race shop outside of Charlotte, N.C., his fingers dirty with oil and grease as he worked under the hood of a Busch Series car. In the background he could hear the television broadcast of the Daytona 500. Occasionally, he'd sneak a peak to find out who was winning, and then go back to work for an upstart, unsponsored team that was so far behind that it couldn't get a car ready for Daytona. That was a year ago. Since then Gilliland's lif ...

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