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AUDIT ROW #329 · NO NATIONAL RACE ON THIS GROUND — THE DISTINCTION PRINTED
No NASCAR or national-series race was ever held on Walkerton ground; the region's one national-series stock-car race of the sport's first era was run at South Bend on July 20, 1952 — and this town's driver, a half-century later, ran his national races at Chicago and Richmond, not at home. The distinction is the item's whole content and it is printed carefully: a small town can hold a national driver without holding a national race, and Walkerton is the type case. The 1952 race is South Bend's (its Playland Park ground), carried here at the size the sanctioning record gives it and claimed no further; the Walkerton test itself — sanctioning and press record for a national event on this ground — returns nothing at any date. When Chad Blount reached the Cup series in 2004, his debut came at Chicagoland Speedway in the Tropicana 400; the sport's map never included his hometown, because there was never a track here for it to include.