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community.nascar.com - 4/22/2009
What Exactly is a Restrictor Plate?
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Most NASCAR fans know that Daytona and Talladega are known as restrictor plate tracks. But does everybody know what a restrictor plate is, and more importantly, what it does?? Every week as part of the NASCAR Beat, the official podcast of NASCAR, Brett Bodine answers a different fan's racing ...
Ed Hinton: NASCAR has major decisions to make on restrictor-plate racing
sports.espn.go.com - 4/28/2009
Ed Hinton: NASCAR has major decisions to make on restrictor-plate racing
— sports.espn.go.com — NASCAR has a problem at Talladega, and they know it. Killing fans always has been bad for... business, and Carl Edwards' crash on the final lap of Sunday's race came much too close to doing that. (more) Ed Hinton: NASCAR has major decisions to make on ...

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The MotorSportsNews.Net(work) — ... fans. It’s a showdown of more than a bunch of capital letters. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to prevent the crowd at Sunday’s … www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/22/article/nascar_peta_officials_playing_a_game_of_chicken What Exactly is a Restrictor Plate? Nascar - USA Most NASCAR fans know that Daytona and Talladega are known as restrictor plate tracks. But does everybody know what a restrictor plate is, … ...

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