Actor, professional wrestler and entrepreneur Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been named Grand Marshal for the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Feb. 18 (2:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Johnson will say the most famous words in motorsports ahead of a sold-out “Great American Race,” which marked the earliest sellout of the event in recent history.
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“Nothing compares to the intensity and anticipation of that first command of the NASCAR season as we kick off the 66th running of the Daytona 500, and who better to say those four famous words than Dwayne Johnson,” said Frank Kelleher, president of Daytona International Speedway.
“There are very few people who can truly match the energy around the pomp and circumstance of The Great American Race, and The Rock may be the only person who can actually ramp it up even more. We can’t wait to see how he fires up the crowd and the engines for all the fans.”
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On-track festivities for the Daytona 500 will kick off Wednesday, Feb. 14 with single-car qualifying (8:15 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).