And really, if one didn't care for tradition and had no aesthetic sensibility, stock-car racing would have much to recommend it. It's possible to see how Nick prefers it to horse racing. There's something nice about people cheering, as they were tonight, for their friends and townsmen rather than for their own hope of gain (there's no betting at auto races).
A. Lurie, Real People (1969), Collected edition (1999), 440
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