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tanding at the top of the grandstand at Newport Raceway in Newport, Tenn., you can almost hear the roar of the stock cars and the cheers of the crowd that once crowded this old 4/10-mile racetrack every Saturday night. The fastest speed ever recorded on the paved racetrack’s 32-degree banks is 140 mph, but that is all in the past as the racetrack has been shuttered for the last few years. Now the racetrack’s infield is dotted

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