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Perseverence pays off big for Troxel at Bristol Dragway

By Bill Stephens
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, May 19, 2008

It was a month ago, almost to the day, that the motorsports world was rallying around Danica Patrick in the wake of her first career IRL victory in Motegi, Japan. A week later, it was Ashley Force energizing the women's movement in major league racing with her breakthrough Funny Car win in Atlanta. And while all the hysteria was reverberating through the racing and mainstream media, Melanie Troxel was feeling a little left out. Not anymore. Troxel's stubborn heroics and unbending determinatio ...

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