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The Budweiser Shootout held since 1979, the non-points event (formerly named the Busch Clash and Bud Shootout) has jump-started the NASCAR Winston Cup Series as the season-opening race at the World Center of Racing one week before the Daytona 500.
The infamous Old West outlaw was first arrested at 16. At the age of 18, he shot and killed a man during an altercation at an army camp in Arizona. At 21, he was killed â shot by sheriff Pat Garrett â and the man forever known as Billy the Kid was laid to rest in Fort Sumner, N.M. Then again, maybe he wasnât.