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Most auto races start with the National Anthem. The second King of the Heap race at NCM Motorsports Park started with a different tune: “Happy Birthday” to Matt Busby, the track manager and wrangler of all things KotH, who looked amused and annoyed at the same time during the driver’s meeting. It became pretty apparent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":629310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,1219,1663,1217,1657,4,5,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangshiftapex-event-coverage","category-bangshiftapex-gallery","category-autocross-pro-touring","category-bangshiftapex","category-bangshift-galleries","category-event-coverage","category-gallery","category-other-event-coverage"],"yoast_head":"\n
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