By Ryan McGee
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, July 2, 2009

This article appears in the July 13th issue of ESPN The Magazine. For four years, the people of Rockingham, N.C., refused to talk racing. For four years, they changed their routes home from work to avoid the feeling that came with driving by the old speedway, which sat rusting away on U.S. Highway 1, like so many of the abandoned textile mills that define the town limits. The greatest source of pride for Richmond County's 46,000 residents had fallen silent, no different from the weed-covered ...

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