It means that NASCAR shares my opinion that this (Grand-Am) is the next big thing and is now prepared to move forward and help make it happen 
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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Adrian Dantley delivers his induction speech at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.
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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Roy Halladay throws against the Tampa Bay Rays in the first inning of their American League MLB baseball game in Toronto September 5, 2008.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 05: Singer Mary J. Blige and Martin Kendu attend the Conde Nast Media Group's Fifth Annual Fashion Rocks at Radio City Music Hall on September 5, 2008 in New York City.
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LANCASTER, PA - SEPTEMBER 4: Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a rally at Buchanan Park September 4, 2008 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Obama is campaigning through Pennsylvania as U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accepts the Republican nomination for U.S. President tonight.
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Italy's Claudia Pettazzoni (L) and Peru's Fidel Rios kiss each other to win the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione on July 20, 2008. The couple won the world's longest underwater kiss title with a time of 1 minutes and 51 seconds.
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A model presents a creation by Belarussian designer Dmitry Prigozhaev during the International Festival of Vanguard Art, Mammoth, in Minsk November 17, 2007.
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Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) arrives to accept the nomination. at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 4, 2008.
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Quotes about NASCAR
This wasn’t a quick process on the NASCAR Sprint Cup side, and it won’t be with these cars.
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Richmond International Raceway officials are currently meeting with weather officials and NASCAR, to monitor the path and potential impact of Tropical Storm Hanna
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in Autosport
Quotes from articles mentioning NASCAR
A real smart racer explained it to me this way after he wrecked me and I was real mad. He said, 'I just had to look at your rear bumper and decide if you would do this to me, and you had, and so it was a real simple decision ... I'd do it again.
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in Covers
We'll go on and we'll race him that way in the Chase if that's the way he wants to race.
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in Covers
The reason he hasn't won is just because we haven't had our cars fast enough, but he's been close
said Jack Roush
in The Olympian
We still just haven't got the chemistry between he and the crew chief and the team that we rebuilt to be where it's at its absolute best, but they're very close to being able to do the deal ... If we could just win a race and get that behind us, I think everybody would be a little bit more relaxed.
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in The Olympian
That's the way it's been, predominantly, a lot of the time ... I think they kind of skip over me. I like that because it's less pressure for me. We just do the best we can, stay under the radar, I guess, and see what we can do.
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in The Olympian
