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Racing’s Colosseum Goes Dark Waiting to Welcome Its Family Back Home

Racing’s Colosseum Goes Dark Waiting to Welcome Its Family Back Home
The Bristol Motor Speedway is reflected in a puddle at the camping site on May 2. Michael Rayne Swensen
Salena Zito
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BRISTOL, Tennessee—April’s race weekend came and went with no one filling the steep stadium stands of one of the largest sports venues in the world; no one standing proudly to sing “The Star-Spangled-Banner”; and no hushed anticipation before the most famous words in motorsports, followed by the roar of the engines that power some of the fastest cars in the world.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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