Nationwide Series driver Eric McClure missed six weeks this season after a concussion, also at Talladega.
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He has performed stunts in The Avengers, GI Joe, Bourne Ultimatum, Wanted, Talladega Nights and The Fast and Furious.
Among such events are the Daytona International Speedway which hosts the annual Daytona 500, Talladega Superspeedway, and the Kansas Speedway.
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His last win was at Talladega in 2003, but he led four laps in the season-opening Daytona 500 and finished 22nd.
That crash led to the use of horsepower-sapping restrictor plates at Talladega and its sister track in Daytona, NASCAR's fastest layouts.
The 2013 Daytona winner and dominant force in the sport, Jimmie Johnson, did grow up in the shadow of Talladega or Martinsville.
Daytona re-examined its fencing and ended up replacing the entire thing following Carl Edwards's crash at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama in 2009.
Waltrip had an opportunity to win Talladega last October until leader Tony Stewart triggered a multi-car accident trying to hold off the field.
Chitwood said the fence had been replaced after a similar incident at Talladega in which a car hit the fence and seven fans were injured.
That critical relationship was spoofed in the movie "Talladega Nights, " in a pre-meal prayer delivered by fictional NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby, played by actor Will Ferrell.
The driver missed four races because of the injury and ran just 23 laps at Talladega last weekend handing the car off to replacement driver Brian Vickers.
The late accident at Talladega opened the door for the duo from Front Row Racing, David Ragan and David Gilliland to finish 1-2 in last week's race.
Domestically, their resume includes rescuing nine hostages held at a federal prison in Talladega, Ala. in 1991 by Cuban inmates who were rioting to prevent their return to Cuba.
Ratings and attendance continue to be well below the levels seen in 2008, but the fans are starting to come back and close races like Talladega will only help.
Ferrell spent seven years starring on Saturday Night Live before moving into film, starring in films including Zoolander, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Megamind and most recently, The Campaign.
Vickers is scheduled to drive for Michael Waltrip Racing at Martinsville next weekend, and Sadler has a deal with sponsorship to run a fourth JGR car at Kansas and Talladega.
The Talladega murals are the deserved stars of "Rising Up, " but the show as a whole affirms Woodruff's place among America's pre-eminent social realists of the 1930s and early 1940s.
Newman has been in numerous harrowing accidents at Daytona and Talladega, where NASCAR uses restrictor-plates to control the speeds, and was sharp with his criticism after exiting the infield care center.
Ferrell -- who gave Sacha Baron Cohen a long, passionate kiss in "Talladega Nights" and who has stripped in pretty much everything except "Elf" -- knows that sexual humiliation earns big yuks.
Hendrick Motorsports announced Thursday that Dale Earnhardt Jr. would not compete in the next two Nascar races after being diagnosed with a concussion following the 25-car last lap wreck at Talladega on Oct. 7.
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Kurt Busch had hoped to go from an upside-down finish when his car went airborne late and crash-landed on Ryan Newman at Talladega last week to his first Sprint Cup victory in two years at Darlington.
The Charlotte region has been a filming location for TV shows such as "Homeland" and films such as "The Hunger Games" and "Talladega Nights, " but advocates said the city could attract more shoots if it had bigger sound stages.
The 69-year-old Christenberry still makes the annual pilgrimage to Alabama each year, returning to the same locations: a strange red-brick building standing alone in Talladega National Forest, a juke joint that has since been torn down, churches and warehouses.
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The Talladega murals, which initially attracted wide attention, may be Woodruff's most accomplished works, yet despite their visual strength and narrative power, they have been little known during the nearly seven decades since their installation in the lobby of the college library.
Similar inventiveness distinguishes the "racial harmony" panels: "The Underground Railroad" (white men helping runaway slaves to escape), "Opening Day at Talladega College" (newly freed slaves bartering animals and produce for tuition) and "The Building of Savery Library" (blacks and whites laboring together).
After a year of conservation that fully revealed their rich, varied palette, the six paintings are the center of an informative survey, "Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College, " organized by Stephanie Heydt of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, in collaboration with the college.
Both liked that the system loaded and began playing Blu-ray movies considerably faster than other players, and had nothing but good things to say about the picture quality -- with the exception of the included movie, even on a 50GB disc Talladega Nights looked "flat" and "compressed" -- despite still leaning towards HD DVD in overall sharpness.
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Woodruff was 38 when he received the Talladega commission. (Born in 1900 in Ohio, and raised in Tennessee, he died in 1980 in New York, where he taught at New York University for more than 20 years.) After studying at the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Woodruff broadened his experience at the Art Institute of Chicago's school, Harvard's Fogg Museum School, and in Paris between 1927 and 1931.
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