Think you’ve got what it takes to race Danica Patrick or any given Earnhardt? Test your mettle during the Atlanta Motor Speedway’s Friday Night Drags, open street-racing challenges on the track’s eighth-mile pit road. It’s $8 to watch, $20 to race (insurance premiums are up to you). If you prefer a more genteel pace, there’s the Show ’N’ Shine car display. Events scheduled July 5, 12, 19, 26. Event Site

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