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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.
On September 25, there was a shootout in the middle of the day at a Gwinnett County gas station. On October 5, a man on a motorcycle pointed a gun at a driver. Fortunately those scenes, which were caught on camera, did not end in death, but all too often death is the end result of a gun being pulled.