Spring is for new beginnings, and in the South, spring is also for the races.
The Talladega 500 is on Sunday, April 24, and the first Saturday in May is always reserved for the Kentucky Derby. Both are full of horsepower, fashion and bourbon and make joyful thundering noise.
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