2008-12-01 - 'Victory Lap' is gone, but New York setting remains
For the last four years, it's been as much a part of the New York holiday scene as the Rockettes and the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree -- 10 Sprint Cup show cars, their rumbling engines shaking morning frost from light poles, making a slow, loud parade around Midtown. The "Victory Lap" was an imposing spectacle before a captive audience, thousands of business people in suits who stopped to snap cellphone photos, and concluding in the vast canyon of Times Square, blocked off to all but the NASCAR drivers and their vehicles.
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