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What does NASCAR get for its love affair with New York? Not much

By David Newton
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

NEW YORK -- Six hours in New York City, and I've seen enough. It's time to move NASCAR's annual season-ending banquet out of the Big Apple. This town doesn't care that three-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson is posing for pictures atop the Empire State Building or in the middle of Times Square. It doesn't care that he'll be ringing the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday or that he'll be honored along with the rest of the top 10 drivers at the Waldorf-Astoria on Fri ...

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