NASHVILLE, Tenn. – If Nashville didn’t know NASCAR was in town, the city found out emphatically on Wednesday night, when the world’s best stock car drivers lit up Broadway in the heart of the Music City’s nightclub district.
Some of them lit up Broadway, that is.
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