| | | | | | PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT | LMS to host burnout
competition for all-star race | |
| | By Bob Pockrass / SceneDaily.com CONCORD, NC -- Clint Bowyer is going to be one of five drivers competing in the Pennzoil Burnout Contest prior to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race on May 17.
Hopefully he will have better luck than he did when practicing for the event Tuesday.
Bowyer did fine in doing some burnouts before a news conference but then driving down to pit lane goofing around, he tore up the car belonging to the Richard Petty Driving Experience when he hit the pit wall. Uninjured but maybe with a little hurt pride, Bowyer talked about participating in the new contest.
“It was practice, man. That’s what you’re here for – to see what to do and what not to do,” Bowyer said at the track. “I had a little disagreement with the wall. It didn’t work out so good. That’s happened a lot to me here.”
The contest is scheduled at 6:20 p.m. EDT May 17, about 85 minutes before the start of NASCAR Sprint Showdown. It will feature five drivers who will have to do two 360-degree spins and then drive into a mock victory lane on the frontstretch. Drivers will not be allowed to go onto the apron on the frontstretch nor the grass. The quickest driver wins a $10,000 donation to his favorite charity.
The track also announced that Davidson College men’s basketball coach Bob McKillop and his staff will be co-grand marshals of the race, and Hugh Rowland, star of The History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers,” also will attend.
In another announcement, the track said the North Carolina Education Lottery will sponsor the Craftsman Truck Series race May 16. The first 500 people who bring five non-winning “Speedway Riches” instant scratch-off lottery tickets to Lowe’s Motor Speedway will receive two free tickets to the truck race.
| | Posted April 23, 2008 , 5:57 pm EST
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