Even on race day, the most crowded of the annual events held here (there are also NASCAR and Motorcycle races), you can move pretty freely around the place, which has a county fair-like ambiance, with plenty of food, merchandise and booze stands and trailers everywhere you turn.

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And as though to confirm the stereotype - everywhere you turn in the capital - it's the women you see at work.

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