(Kannapolis, NC - May 8, 2008) - As part of its National Tourism Weed celebration, the Cabarrus County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CCVB) will host two of NASCAR's brightest shooting stars, Joey Logano and Chrissy Wallace, for an autograph event at the Cabarrus County Visitor Center at I-85 Exit 60 on Friday, May 16, 2008, from 11am to 1pm. Local author Anita Rich will also be present for a book signing, and copies of her new book, NASCAR Portraits, will be available for purchase.
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(May. 8) CONCORD, N.C. (May 7, 2008) - Race fans will have an opportunity to support the environment, their favorite drivers, as well as Speedway
Children's Charities for two weekends of racing at the historic Lowe's Motor
Speedway this month.
(May. 8) Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart will host a special broadcast of his weekly SIRIUS NASCAR Radio show Tony Stewart Live from Graceland, the Memphis home of Elvis Presley.
(May. 8) CONCORD, N.C. (May 8, 2008) - Check out Rick Hendrick's first Chevrolet. Watch a dissected Impala SS "Car of Tomorrow" being pieced together. See the cars and memorabilia of Casey Mears, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
(May. 8) Jeff Gordon's mother, Carol Bickford, will co-host a Mother's Day edition of the XM Satellite Radio motorsports show "Dialed In" with XM sports anchor Claire B. Lang on Thursday with an encore broadcast on Sunday.
(May. 7) CONCORD, N.C. (May 6, 2008) - Lowe's Motor Speedway's Salute the
Troops Pre-Race Spectacular prior to the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series race on Sunday, May 25, will include the presentation of 1,500
soldiers along with an assault demonstration in which troops will be
inserted via helicopters into "enemy territory."
(May. 7) Huntersville, N.C. (May 7, 2008) – It’s tough to beat the month of May if you’re a race fan. Most professional motorsports series host competitions of “main event” status while grassroots levels of racing also host major events. An example, Lowe’s Motor Speedway (LMS) in Concord, North Carolina hosts the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ Sprint All-Star Challenge on May 17. One week later, enthusiasts are treated to the Formula One Series’ top billing, the Grand Prix De Monaco in the city streets of Monte Carlo. The same day, the Sprint Cup Series competes in the Coca-Cola 600 at LMS and IndyCar’s crown jewel, the Indianapolis 500, is held. Drivers discuss the month of May.
John Andretti, Open Wheel and NASCAR Sprint Cup Veteran:
(May. 7) CONCORD, N.C. (May 7, 2008) - For the first time, the entry list for
the May 25 Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway includes three
Indianapolis 500 winners.
(May. 7) Meetmeattheraces.com the first dating website dedicated to NASCAR and other racing fans is now free. Single NASCAR lovers and those who want to meet them are a huge passionate group with members in every part of the country, Canada, Mexico and even Japan.
(May. 2) CONCORD, N.C. (May 1, 2008) - NASCAR's All-Star Weekend adds another
group of all-stars as multi-platinum recording artists 3 Doors Down will
perform a 75-minute concert prior to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on
Saturday, May 17, at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
(May. 2) Indiana Jones is embarking on a daring new adventure, thanks to an alliance between Andretti Green Racing, Blockbuster Inc. and Lucasfilm Ltd.
(May. 2) Richmond, Va. (May _, 2008) – While in Richmond this week, Richard and Kyle Petty visited with paralyzed veterans in the Spinal Cord Injury Unit of Richmond’s Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center. The two spent time with seriously wounded troops and met with members of the Paralyzed Veterans Virginia Mid-Atlantic Chapter.
(May. 1) NASCAR champion Bobby Labonte and wife Donna hosted the fifth annual Bobby Labonte Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic on Tuesday, April 29 with over 100 participants taking part at the Ballantyne Resort Golf Course.
(May. 1) ROSWELL, Ga. (April 29, 2008) – Jimmy Elledge, in his first race as crew chief of the No. 42 Juicyfruit Gum/Wrigley Dodge Charger driven by Juan Pablo Montoya, has been named WYPALL Wipers’ “Crew Chief of the Race” in Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway.
(May. 1) RICHMOND, VA - Morgan Shepherd’s Faith Motorsports Dodge will hopefully be making a lot more trips around the Richmond International Raceway this weekend, thanks to the generosity of two of the veteran driver's modern-day heroes.
(Apr. 25) CONCORD, N.C. (April 25, 2008) - After an exhaustive review of 4,365
entries in a naming contest for Lowe's Motor Speedway's new dragway,
Speedway Motorsports officials have selected zMAX Dragway @ Concord as the
official name for the state-of-the-art facility.
(Apr. 25) Dale Earnhardt Inc. driver Martin Truex Jr. found himself giving back to the community while preparing for this weekend’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway.
(Apr. 24) Get the inside scoop on the auto racing season with “It’s Your Call’s” upcoming “Trackside 101” episode featuring live interviews with NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Kenny Wallace and auto industry expert/television commentator Jeff Hammond on Thursday, May 1 at 9 p.m. exclusively on CN8.
(Apr. 24) Bob McKillop, the head men’s basketball coach at Davidson College, and his assistants, Matt Methany, Jim Fox, Tim Sweeney and Jeremy Henney, will serve as Co-Grand Marshals for the May 17 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
(Apr. 24) Lowe’s Motor Speedway officials have created a special Value Menu which details affordable ticket prices and packages available for the track’s May NASCAR races.
(Apr. 24) Floyd Mayweather Jr., the world’s top pound-for-pound boxer, will serve as the honorary starter of the 92nd Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 25.
(Apr. 24) With the hopes of competing in the 2008 O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at Kansas Speedway, Michelle Theriault has aligned with Rick Markle Racing for the April 26th Craftsman Truck Series race.
The 22-year old Theriault be qualifying the number 73 truck for the same team that has entered Jennifer Jo Cobb in the number 74 truck.
“Rick and Del Markle have been longtime supporters of me and my career. They offered me the chance to test in one of their cars at Daytona and I jumped at the opportunity.”
As a driver, Rick Markle made starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Craftsman Truck Series and in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series. Currently, he is focusing his attention on building his Rick Markle Racing team into a full-time competitor. “I really appreciate what their entire organization has done for me.”
Michelle’s association with RMR includes competing against Rick in the USAR Pro Cup series and last year his father Del was the engine tuner for her team in the ARCA and Busch East Series.
Nitrofill will be on board as an associate sponsor and the team is still actively pursuing primary sponsorship for Theriault. The opportunity for a primary sponsor is open for the Kansas race as well as of the remainder of the season. Michelle is looking to run several more races in the Craftsman Truck Series but that will be decided by what the team can arrange for sponsorship. Theriault says, “I am excited for this opportunity and realize my main goal is to gain seat time so by the end of this season I will be ready to run at every track for the entire truck season in 2009.”
For more information on how your organization can gain sponsorship of the 73 truck and Michelle Theriault, contact Michelle through her website at www.michelletheriault.com.
In 2007, Theriault completed her rookie season in the NASCAR Busch East Series scoring two top 10 finishes in her first two starts and ended the season 13th in the championship. She also competed in six ARCA RE/MAX Series races. This year while hoping to run several truck races, Michelle is also running a NASCAR Whelen All American Late Model at Greenville-Pickens Speedway with Addis Motorsports. In just her first two starts she has two top 10 finishes.
(Apr. 10) In his more than 20 years with ESPN, reporter Jack Arute has covered two college football games, and even two different sports, on the same day, on multiple occasions. However, he has never done anything approaching what he will do April 19-20.
(Apr. 10) Eddie Cheever, the 1998 Indianapolis 500 winner and a former Formula One driver, has been named as an analyst for ESPN on ABCs coverage of the 92nd Indianapolis 500 airing Sunday, May 25, at noon ET.
(Apr. 4) FORT WORTH, Texas (April 4, 2008) – A supernova of racing talent will again descend upon the Field of Dreams that is Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio on June 4 when the dirt that made champions out of A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti plays host to today’s racing stars at the fourth annual Old Spice Prelude to the Dream. And for those not lucky enough to grab a seat for the dirt late model race featuring over 25 world renowned drivers as they battle for dirt supremacy, HBO Pay-Per-View will present the event live to the entire nation. Proceeds from this telecast will support construction of Victory Junction Gang Camp II in Kansas City, as well as the Tony Stewart Foundation.
(Apr. 3) El Segundo, Calif. and Indianapolis – (April 3, 2008) - DIRECTV, the nation's leading satellite television provider, adds another notch in its HD belt as the Premiere Official Sponsor of the IndyCar Series.
(Apr. 3) FORT WORTH, Texas (April 2, 2008): NASCAR veteran driver Mark Martin and open-wheel star Jim McElreath were inducted into the Texas Motor Sports Hall of Fame in ceremonies at The Speedway Club at Texas Motor Speedway.
(Apr. 2) On “Tradin’ Paint” on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, hosts Steve Post and Danny “Chocolate” Myers spoke with Red Bull Racing Team development driver Scott Speed, who announced today that he will be teaming up with Bill Davis Racing to run a schedule of 11 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races this season under the direction of crew chief Slugger Labbe.
Speed scored a tenth place finish in second ever NASCAR Craftsman Truck race last weekend at Martinsville Speedway.
(Apr. 2) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (April 1, 2008) - 2008 begins a new era for Andretti Green Racing's #27 machine, now known as the Honda Formula Dream Project Dallara/Honda/Firestone and under the control of IndyCar Series rookie Hideki Mutoh.
(Apr. 2) PLANO, Texas (April 1, 2008) – DLP® HDTV officials announced today that they will extend their sponsorship of the No. 96 Hall of Fame Racing Toyota driven by J.J. Yeley in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
