- Nascar’s Confederate flag ban off to checkered start in Alabama
- Sunday’s race was first major US sporting event allowing fans
- Interview: Bubba Wallace on Nascar and the Confederate flag
Nascar’s ban of the Confederate flag got off to a checkered start on Sunday afternoon, with the Geico 500 at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway, the first large-scale sporting event in the US to allow fans to attend since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.
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