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The ghost of Wilkesboro

By Ryan McGee
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

All throughout the weekend race fans streaked up and down U.S. Highway 421, rolling through the Blue Ridge foothills that wrinkle the northwestern corner of North Carolina, headed to and from the Bristol Motor Speedway over in East Tennessee. The Bristol night race is the hottest ticket in American motorsports and during a year in which ticket sales are down by double-digit numbers throughout NASCAR, the sparkling coliseum of a short track has been the year's only genuine wall-to-wall sello ...

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