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NASCAR's return to moonshine roots

By Ryan McGee
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, November 5, 2009

This story appears in the November 16 issue of ESPN The Magazine. As I turn off the paved road, following directions e-mailed to me under the subject line SHHHH!, two men in overalls step in front of my truck. "Hey, bud," one says, "you can't go any further until you give the pass code." In 15 years of chasing racers to questionable locales, this is the first time I've needed a secret phrase. I stammer through "I see the moon, the moon sees me" and am waved into a small valley tucked int ...

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