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Squeaky clean, technically correct racing has long been the ideal of road racers around the world, who frown on race car contact and driver disputes.
NASCAR has never been able to handle such pretentiousness.
There's just been too many Earnhardts, Wallaces, Waltrips and the like for an American racing series like
NASCAR -- born from hardscrabble roots -- to develop a pattern of incident-free, drama-free competition.
Sure, times have changed during the official 61-year history of NASCAR-sanctioned races. Fans could certainly argue that more vanilla has been added to the mix thanks to corporate interest and sponsorship, sometimes deadening the type of controversy that can make lap 62 of a 500-lap race an edge-of-your-seat experience.
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