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Atlanta, home to CNN and Coca-Cola, predominantly black, full of car parks, is a hip-hop modern city. Alabama, home of Forrest Gump and grits, is the second most racist state in the Union, edged out by a dirty nose by Mississippi, and full of hicks, rednecks and good ol' boys. When you produce a credit card they eye it with suspicion and say, 'We once had someone in here from Chi-ca-go who called it a ch-ar-ge card. While we are there the Anniston Star thunders: 'The last thing Hobson City needs is another night club where alcohol is served.
That city is suffering enough already. The only time I understand a word is when his tongue becomes not so much forked as schizoid. Milling around at the bus depot are The Cowboy and The Convict.
We hook up. Sadly, we are not only car-less but room-less. Everyone we have asked has assured us that there are no free rooms in Alabama. The DieHard is, give or take a game of college football, the state's biggest sporting event and the clever motor-sport fan - all things are relative - books a spot to rest his weary petrol-head a year in advance. No sweat for The Cowboy. He takes us to the McCaig Motel and they offer us a room. It is in Talladega, albeit 10 miles from the Talladega Superspeedway.
Nonetheless it is the nearest hotel. They used to have a restaurant but it is now a church. I ask if I can make an international phone call. They ask if it's long distance. I say, Yes indeedy. They say we don't do long distance. The Cowboy, in between answering calls on his mobile with a chirpy 'Howdy, it's the Cowboy', becomes increasingly frustrated at the inability of the local populace to provide him with coherent instructions. They're just backward people.
How will I cope with the backward people? Talladega Superspeedway is the fastest, biggest race track in the US of A. Built in in the middle of a forest in the middle of nowhere, Alabama, it is a 2. Imagine a giant Scalextric track constructed somewhere very wooded and very rural in between Aberystwyth and Colwyn Bay. Outside it are field upon field of campsites. Inside it are Winnebagos, camper vans, old school busses, pick-up trucks and tents.
All strictly demarcated. The tent-owners have to lump it in the quagmire in the middle. There are more than , people here. It's as if the whole of Herefordshire had decided to decamp and spend a week's holiday within the confines of a slightly reduced M25 with the richest paying very good money for a view of South Mimms service station.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing's show is the fastest-growing sport in America and involves a bunch of Southern men driving souped-up stock cars very fast, and turning left. To be precise, driving at up to mph and turning left times. It's simple and it's dangerous. It's very Alabamian.
It is also popular in other states. There will be 34 championship races this year as this once Southern sport expands all the way up to New Hampshire. Inevitably, given the increased interest, plans are afoot for a hour-a-day Nascar TV channel. There will be no racing today because it's raining. In this respect the sport resembles cricket. The track has to be dry before those pretty boys will risk their stock cars. Rain stopped play is a not infrequent occurrence.
The fans react in the traditional way: some sit around talking cars and eating pork, some drain a crate of Bud Lite, others stare at the asphalt track, watching it dry. Find out the difference between an acronym, abbreviation, trademark or an initialism yes, it's yet another new word! We have detailed below the meaning of the letters or initials used, a definition and some helpful background information about this common acronym.
Background information. The origins of stock car racing in the United States started with 'bootlegging' during Prohibition.
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