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Landward ho!

By Ryan McGee
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

California has more movie stars. Texas is bigger. Indianapolis is THE speedway. Chicago has bigger buildings and better pizza. Miami-Homestead has better beaches, which is to say it actually has beaches. But when the book is written on NASCAR's great westward expansion during the late 1990s, perhaps its greatest success story will be the track that will be raced this weekend, the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. The speedway continues to sell out races in a slumping economy; it surpri ...

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