{"id":17542,"date":"2015-01-14T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2015-01-14T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T11:23:10","slug":"nascar-sprint-cup-series-drivers-ready-hit-road-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/nascar-sprint-cup-series-drivers-ready-hit-road-daytona-500\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Drivers  Ready To Hit the Road to the DAYTONA 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Road-To-the-D500_C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17543\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Road-To-the-D500_C-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Road To the D500_C\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Road-To-the-D500_C-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Road-To-the-D500_C-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Road-To-the-D500_C.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. &#8212; In the weeks leading up to the prestigious season-opening DAYTONA 500 Sunday, Feb. 22, the stars of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be logging plenty of miles promoting \u201cThe Great American Race\u201d with the Road to the DAYTONA 500 Tour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cross-country media blitz will feature close to 20 drivers visiting 11 different cities. Each location will host a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver for a day of special events and media availabilities, all promoting the 57th annual DAYTONA 500 Sunday, Feb. 22 (TV \u2013 FOX, FOX Deportes; Radio \u2013 MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to work with the drivers as we build the excitement throughout the country about the DAYTONA 500 and the start of the new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season,\u201d Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III said. \u201cThe Road to the DAYTONA 500 is a critical element in promoting \u2018The Great American Race\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Road to the DAYTONA 500 kicked off Jan. 2 in Jacksonville with 2014 DAYTONA 500 champion Dale Earnhardt Jr., who prior to flipping the coin at the TaxSlayer Bowl, met with the media alongside the Harley J. Earl DAYTONA 500 trophy and participated in a Twitter takeover of @DISupdates.<br \/>\nAmong the other cities and drivers that will be featured on the tour include:<br \/>\n\u2022 Washington, D.C. (Jeff Gordon)<br \/>\n\u2022 Phoenix (Danica Patrick)<br \/>\n\u2022 Atlanta (Kyle Busch)<br \/>\n\u2022 Boston (Kevin Harvick)<br \/>\n\u2022 Chicago (Carl Edwards)<br \/>\n\u2022 Tampa (Brad Keselowski, Tony Stewart and Kyle Larson)<br \/>\n\u2022 Los Angeles (Jimmie Johnson)<br \/>\n\u2022 Miami (Joey Logano)<br \/>\n\u2022 New York (Earnhardt Jr., Denny Hamlin)<br \/>\n\u2022 Orlando (Matt Kenseth)<br \/>\n\u2022 Daytona Beach (Clint Bowyer, AJ Allmendinger and Ryan Newman)<br \/>\n\u2022 Orlando-Daytona Beach, where driver Austin Dillon and owner Richard Childress will officially<\/p>\n<p>activate the new vertical transportation associated with its $400 million DAYTONA Rising project with an Escalator Duel.<br \/>\nIn addition, during Budweiser Speedweeks, Aric Almirola and Kasey Kahne are expected to fly with the world-renowned U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, who are providing the flyover for the DAYTONA 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. &#8212; In the weeks leading up to the prestigious season-opening DAYTONA 500 Sunday, Feb. 22, the stars of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be logging plenty of miles promoting \u201cThe Great American Race\u201d with the Road to the DAYTONA 500 Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[15645],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-daytona-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}