At the Track

We'll note happenings at the national and local levels of racing.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Community spirit


NASCAR drivers, owners and fans have a great sense of community spirit and show up in big ways to support worthy causes.

Seemingly every driver has a foundation and they all support Victory Junction.

Well, right here at home, NASCAR fans turned out the first weekend of December to support the Huntington Downtown Lions Club by purchasing chances on a pair of Chrysler Tower Section A tickets to the May 19 All-Star Challenge at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte

The money raised will be used to pay for eye examinations and purchase glasses for folks needing help to do so.

Debbie Tabor of Proctorville, Ohio, was the lucky one and she’ll be watching the race from just shy of the start/finish line.

As president of the downtown club, I got to hand over those tickets to Debbie, and was thrilled to do so. I’ll be at that race, too. In the same section, just not next to Debbie.

In fact, I’ll be in Charlotte most of that week at the second annual convention of the Official NASCAR Members Club. You’ll be hearing from me about the Members Club in the near future on this blog.

Only 38 days to Daytona!

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