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Racing and RVing - a winning combination!

Racing and RVing - a winning combination!

   Monday, 15 October 2007 MARTINSVILLE, VA (October 15, 2007) – David and Kathy Moore are like any proud homeowners, surveying their neighborhood, preparing for an evening meal with neighbors as the sun begins to slip behind the Blue Ridge Mountains.Except this isn’t any neighborhood and their home isn’t your average brick and mortar home.The Moores were part of over 150 campers who rolled into Martinsville Speedway’s campground when it opened early Saturday morning.

  

That figure more than doubled on Sunday and will grow all week leading up to Sunday’s SUBWAY 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race at the historic track.

While the Moores were part of the large influx on Saturday, they were also part of a smaller group that gathers together twice a year in the Martinsville Speedway campground.

By next Sunday there will be 21 people and seven campers (trailers) in this group,” said David Moore.

The group sets up on the hillside overlooking the backstretch, cobbling their campers together to form a close neighborhood, sort of like a modern day circling of wagons.

On Saturday the Moores, who hail from Henderson, N.C., were set up on the hillside, along with couples from Roanoke, Raleigh and Franklinton, N.C. They were expecting a couple from West Virginia early Sunday and another couple from Mississippi on Wednesday.

The group has grown over the years and they now visit more than just the two yearly trips to Martinsville. Last year they all gathered at Kerr Lake for Kathy’s 50th birthday party. Even the couple from Mississippi flew up for the occasion.

That was special,” Kathy said of her birthday gathering. And it all was because of us meeting here in the campground.

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