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Article: Fans' Deaths Shine an Unwelcome Spotlight on Sport of Mud-Bog Racing
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- The Washington Post
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- May 9, 1995
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The dirt course has almost dried, and empty beer cans, soda cups
and potato chip bags still are strewed across the hillside, just as
they normally are after the boisterous mud-bog races here. The
flowers are hard to spot at first, and they seem out of place, a
wreath of carnations and roses wilting in the midday sun.
They usually don't mount wreaths here at the Bodatious Motor
Sports Park. Then again, they usually don't have three spectators
killed by a runaway race car, either.
One day after the weekend-long 20th Anniversary All-Star Nationals
races ended, organizers and officials are reexamining how they run
the popular event, which took a tragic turn Saturday when a four-
wheel-drive car ...