Word: winstone
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Krispy Kreme's doughnuts have outperformed microchips, routers and 10-gigabit lasers since the Winston-Salem, N.C., chain went public at $21 a share last April--just as the NASDAQ started its swoon. The company has become so hot since the offering that it plans to quit NASDAQ in May for the industrial-age New York Stock Exchange...
...fact that NASCAR has become a corporate force in spectator sports and television programming, with 13 racing circuits involving stock cars, open-wheel cars and trucks. It is now a well-tuned operation, staging 2,300 races in 42 states each year, the cream being its 36-event Winston Cup series, which, heading into 2001, landed a six-year network-television contract worth about $400 million annually. The NASCAR organization is still owned by the France family; its public corporation, International Speedway Corp., owns or operates 11 tracks coast to coast, with new venues in Chicago and Kansas City, Kans...
...driven a Winston Cup stock car. They're unhinged monsters, all engine and frame and harnesses that were meant to prevent what happened to Dale. He once told me he hated how confining the modern car is; he liked the old days, his right arm slung over the backseat, steering with his left. And he hung onto as much of the past as he could, including the antique open-faced helmet that might have contributed to his death. But those who suggested the new style were subject to a stare that could pierce his mirrored sunglasses; real drivers--the rebels...
That streak, though, hardened over a short number of years into smart, unapologetic professionalism. By 1979 he had won NASCAR's rookie-of-the-year honor, and just a year later captured his first Winston Cup championship. And with every victory he slowly overcame considerable shyness, learning to speak for himself rather than let his car do the talking...
Darrell Waltrip, in orange jumpsuit, winner of 84 Winston Cup Series races, is a NASCAR racing analyst...