We all have a soft spot for that special dirt track that first ignited our racing passions, and for me it's Brownstown Speedway. Even today, when I'm often asked about my favorite track, I've got no other answer than the quarter-mile oval in southern Indiana.

While it's in the pantheon of the nation's best dirt tracks — mentioning "Brownstown" doesn't require either the words speedway or Indiana to clarify what you're talking about — it's not everyone's favorite, I'm aware.

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Within the past few weeks, I got the hint that the origin of DirtonDirt.com's content isn't always clear, particularly when it comes to the term "press release."

One driver contacted us asking if he could post our "press release" on his website, another media-type outlet wanted to get access to our "press release" from a racing weekend, and a subscriber emailed wondering why I didn't use a provided "press release" verbatim instead of an edited version.

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