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Denny Hamlin gets his clock cleaned

By Ryan McGee

Monday, October 26, 2009

One year ago, I wrote about the real reason drivers want to win at Martinsville. It's not the check, the points or even the history behind NASCAR's oldest racetrack. It's the grandfather clock. When the track rolled its version of Victory Lane out onto the frontstretch (there's no room in the tiny infield for an actual Victory Lane, so the officials use a flatbed trailer) on Sunday, all Denny Hamlin wanted was to get a look at his new $10,000 Ridgeway Clocks masterpiece. Speedway founder ...

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