By CNN Interactive staff writer KC Wildmoon
(CNN) -- Rubber on asphalt has a peculiar smell ... most folks only catch a waft of it from time to time, when by accident (or on purpose) they peel some rubber turning out of a parking lot or breaking away from a stoplight, or when an extra-hard slam on the brakes leaves a streak of black rubber behind.
But that smell -- and the odor of gasoline, the ghostly ripples of heat waves rising off the asphalt, and the incessant roar of mighty engines, built for speed and endurance, pushing an automobile around an oval track at speeds reaching toward 180 mph -- these surround every stock car track in the country, from tiny ovals like Bristol, Tennessee, to the huge superspeedways like Daytona and Talladega, from Florida and North Carolina to Michigan and California.
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