Saturday
Grand Marshals For Brushy Mountain 250 Provide Trip Down Racing’s Memory Lane
Press Release
Retired NASCAR driver Harry Gant, 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup champion Bobby Allison, famous NASCAR engine builder and crew chief Waddell Wilson, and Modified champion Gary Myers will be the grand marshals. Mike Powell, who for many years drove a NASCAR Winston Cup team transporter and now possesses the distinction of being a Nashville recording artist, will sing the national anthem.
Gant, who won a race and a pole at the 0.625-mile track, Wilson, who built engines for several top NASCAR drivers including Fred Lorenzen and Cale Yarborough, and Myers will ride in the original North Wilkesboro Speedway pace car with owner Hon Church. NASCAR’s 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons drove the pace car to North Carolina from Detroit when it was originally delivered to the speedway.
Allison will make history Sunday when he becomes the first grand marshal of a stock car race to ever participate in the pre-race flyover. The leader of the “Alabama Gang” will be in a Piedmont Airlines DC3 owned by the Carolina Aviation Museum in Charlotte, N.C. It will be piloted by Capt. Harry O’Nan, a current Delta pilot, and Capt. Scott Edwards, an original Piedmont Airlines pilot now flying with USAirways. Alton McBride Sr. of Speedway Associates Inc. also will be aboard the aircraft. The four men will receive a police escort from a nearby private airport back to the historic track after the flyover.
The flight is compliments of Capt. Pat and Toni Day in honor of their friends and family in Wilkes County and Piedmont Airlines.
The Brushy Mountain 250 is the feature of Sunday’s Triple Header. Also on the racing schedule is a 100-lap Modified race and a 50-lap Street Stock event.
Practice for the Triple Header weekend begins Saturday at 9 a.m. with qualifying set for 2:35 p.m. The annual USAR Pro Cup Series Pit Crew Challenge is scheduled for 6 p.m.
On Sunday, spectator gates open at 9:30 a.m. An autograph session with USAR Pro Cup drivers will be at 11:30 a.m. with racing scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. with the 50-lap Street Stock race. The Brushy Mountain 250 is slated for 2 p.m. with the 100-lap Modified race to follow. will provide a trip down memory lane for long-time fans.
Retired NASCAR driver Harry Gant, 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup champion Bobby Allison, famous NASCAR engine builder and crew chief Waddell Wilson, and Modified champion Gary Myers will be the grand marshals. Mike Powell, who for many years drove a NASCAR Winston Cup team transporter and now possesses the distinction of being a Nashville recording artist, will sing the national anthem.
Gant, who won a race and a pole at the 0.625-mile track, Wilson, who built engines for several top NASCAR drivers including Fred Lorenzen and Cale Yarborough, and Myers will ride in the original North Wilkesboro Speedway pace car with owner Hon Church. NASCAR’s 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons drove the pace car to North Carolina from Detroit when it was originally delivered to the speedway.
Allison will make history Sunday when he becomes the first grand marshal of a stock car race to ever participate in the pre-race flyover. The leader of the “Alabama Gang” will be in a Piedmont Airlines DC3 owned by the Carolina Aviation Museum in Charlotte, N.C. It will be piloted by Capt. Harry O’Nan, a current Delta pilot, and Capt. Scott Edwards, an original Piedmont Airlines pilot now flying with USAirways. Alton McBride Sr. of Speedway Associates Inc. also will be aboard the aircraft. The four men will receive a police escort from a nearby private airport back to the historic track after the flyover.
The flight is compliments of Capt. Pat and Toni Day in honor of their friends and family in Wilkes County and Piedmont Airlines.
The Brushy Mountain 250 is the feature of Sunday’s Triple Header. Also on the racing schedule is a 100-lap Modified race and a 50-lap Street Stock event.
Practice for the Triple Header weekend begins Saturday at 9 a.m. with qualifying set for 2:35 p.m. The annual USAR Pro Cup Series Pit Crew Challenge is scheduled for 6 p.m.
On Sunday, spectator gates open at 9:30 a.m. An autograph session with USAR Pro Cup drivers will be at 11:30 a.m. with racing scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. with the 50-lap Street Stock race. The Brushy Mountain 250 is slated for 2 p.m. with the 100-lap Modified race to follow.
- Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway Press Release
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