NASCAR, Naval Base Coronado come together perfectly for stories worth telling

CORONADO, Calif. — Ben Kennedy, NASCAR‘s chief operating officer, drove. Capt. Loren Jacobi, commanding officer of Naval Base Coronado, rode shotgun.They zipped around Qualcomm Circuit, the purpose-built track they had spent the last two years planning and honing and fine tuning, and now, finally, they barreled across it.They sped downhill and hung a hard left at Turn 2. What they saw when the car straightened out was unprecedented in NASCAR history: the USS Carl Vinson, 100,000 tons