How insatiable is our appetite for sport? Just ask the thousands of fans who converged on Darlington if only to hear the roar of engines.
, but despite that familiarity he had no idea what to expect Sunday afternoon.
That strategy is what makes the NASCAR Cup Series go round and what had stock car devotees and a what was expected to be a larger-than-normal television audience hungry for any semblance of organized, competitive sport watching intently on Sunday.since March 8 following what is hoped to be the darkest days of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States.
Bobby Greene of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and three buddies made the four-hour trek on their Harley Davidson motorcycles to satisfy their curiosity. “People have been calling me for two weeks, from as far away as New York,” Raceway Grill owner Tony Baird said. “People are tired of sitting at home and just want to get back to a sense of normalcy. For it to be the first sporting event coming back is special and it’s good for NASCAR to kind of kick things off.”
In downtown Darlington, some passers-by paused at the Liberty Lane Walk of Fame, a side street that featured a raceway mural and hand prints of race winners at Darlington, from Fonty Flock to David Pearson to Cale Yarborough.
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