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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 Germans referred to it officially as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (Operation Watch on the Rhine) or usually Ardennenoffensive or Rundstedt-Offensive, while the French named it the Bataille des Ardennes (Battle of the Ardennes). The Allies called it the Ardennes Counteroffensive. The phrase Battle of the Bulge was coined by contemporary press to describe the way the Allied front line bulged inward on wartime news maps and became the most widely used name for the battle.