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Is Atlanta race safe? No guarantees

By David Newton
ESPN.com

Thursday, September 3, 2009

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A conversation with Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith is like a game of cat and mouse. No matter how hard you try to corner him into saying what you think is on his mind, he always finds a way to escape. This conversation was no different. The theme for the day was two-pronged. First premise, NASCAR fouled up by moving the Labor Day weekend Sprint Cup race out of its traditional spot at Darlington Raceway to California just so it could say it spends one of the ...

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