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Formula One’s paymaster, Liberty Media, may have thrust the sport deep into its American heartland—there are now three grand prix in the US—but it’s Nascar that continues to build its TV audience there against a slight decline for the “open wheel” F1 and IndyCar championships.European race fans are famously sniffy about stock car racing, but there’s something about an ostensibly low-tech, normally-aspirated pushrod V8—with a capacity of 358 cubic inches (5.8 liters) and a 670-hp output—charging round an oval that reaches the parts other race series don’t. Or have perhaps given up on.Not that the Nascar grid isn’t trying to…