Jail & Bail charity event on for Oct. 14
Thursday, Sep. 24, 2009
The NASCAR Jail & Bail charity event will be held for a second time in the Charlotte, N.C., area as part of the lead-up to the mid-October race weekend at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Proceeds from the event, scheduled for Oct. 14 at Brickhouse Tavern in Davidson, N.C., will benefit the Brienne Davis Scholarship Fund. The inaugural Jail & Bail effort last year raised nearly $100,000.
Cup drivers Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, Juan Pablo Montoya, David Stremme, Casey Mears, Scott Speed, Brian Vickers, Jamie McMurray, Denny Hamlin, Paul Menard, Reed Sorenson and Marcos Ambrose are expected to take part. Other drivers, TV personalities, Sprint Cup director John Darby and several others will also "have their day in court."
After they are locked up, money for the scholarship fund will be raised through "bail."
Davis, an official in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, was killed in a traffic accident last year. She was 28. The scholarship fund is intended to assist female students at Universal Technical Institute campuses. Davis was a UTI graduate.
Tickets for the event, which will also feature food and music, are on sale now for $10 and at the gate the night of the event. To register for tickets or to learn more visit wwwWWW.NASCAR.COM/foundation.
An online charity auction featuring the jail shirts worn and signed by each participating driver along with autographed NASCAR memorabilia will go live Oct. 15 at 12 p.m. ET and run through Oct. 22. For more information visit WWW.NASCAR.COM/foundation.
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