21.   Ted Williams, grand hitter of baseballs and grand marshal for this NASCAR Winston Cup auto race, did just that.

22.   The City of Ontario, a reluctant landlord, scrambled to help meet the payments by holding charity auto races and rock concerts.

23.   The company will still back golf tournaments and auto races where it thinks it can reach senior managers who might buy its equipment, Tucci said.

24.   The first paid spectator event at Texas Motor Speedway might not be an auto race.

25.   The league runs auto races across the country during a season that lasts from spring until late summer.

26.   Then come sponsorships of sports teams, auto races, rock concerts and discos.

27.   There is no record of Texas football attendance ever dropping because of an auto race.

28.   This sweeping approach does include some trends, such as spots that appeared during college football games Saturday and will appear on the Le Mans auto race on Sunday.

29.   Twenty eight days of midget auto races and the Birmingham Barons on TV.

30.   Volvo has gotten a jump on its competitors in the auto safety race with the introduction of the first side-impact air bag.