Story Highlights Drivers love repaved track, but conditions just as treacherous on oval, which has a history of vicious wrecksCars top 200 mph, a magical but portentous number that often is linked with liftoff speeds in stock-car racingEarnhardt Jr. says even qualifying at 2-mile flat oval can be 'terrifying' BROOKLYN, Mich. – Life moves slower in the Irish Hills, the bucolic region that's home to Michigan International Speedway and the vestiges of summer vacations coated in formaldehyde since the 1960s. But once past the crumbling dinosaur theme parks ("Welcome to the Prehistoric Forest!"), rusting go-kart tracks and quaint ice cream stands lining the two-lane U.S. 12 that is the...
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