Legend traces the origins of American stock-car racing back to Prohibition. Moonshiners modified their cars, the bet ter to outrun police on the south-east's nar row, winding roads. Though races today are on a track rather than mountain by ways and drivers tend to be wholesome, media-friendly "brands", not backwoods renegades, the sport still enjoys a rascally image. Contact between cars is expected: "Rubbin' is racin'," goes an old saying.
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