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NASCAR finally arrived when the stock cars hit the Brickyard

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

Friday, July 27, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS -- NASCAR at the Brickyard. For decades, even the suggestion of a NASCAR race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was more than absurd. It was sacrilege. A car with fenders racing at Indy? Ridiculous. When the day finally came 13 years ago, auto racing in America was transformed forever. NASCAR came of age in 1994 when an up-and-coming kid named Jeff Gordon, who spent his teenage years a few miles from the historic track, won the inaugural Brickyard 400. And it didn't hurt when ...

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