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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.
Members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club were among 5 gangs involved in a shootout in Waco, Texas that left 9 dead and 18 injured. Don Charles Davis, who writes the biker blog The Aging Rebel, told the New York Times that the Waco shootout was a challenge to the Bandidosâ pre-eminence by the smaller Cossacks club.