NASCAR, My Father, and Me

It had been almost 17 years since my father and I had gone to the track together, a time spanning the misery of middle school to my becoming a writer, a time spanning the beginning of the decline in NASCAR viewership through the advent of its newest iteration in Chicago, a place that couldn’t be farther from the South if it tried.

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