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Tighter weekend at the track may just fly

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Friday, September 4, 2009

HAMPTON, Ga. -- I am writing from an empty media center, beside an empty garage area, at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Which is the way the garage area and media center should be, on a Friday, before a Sunday NASCAR race. The Pep Boys 500 weekend has been condensed, to make common sense. This should be the future of NASCAR weekends: practice and qualify on Saturday, race on Sunday and be done with it. "We haven't launched into a two-day schedule forevermore," AMS president Ed Clark cautioned me Fri ...

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