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Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates is pulling out all the stops for the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway (7 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM) with a throwback paint scheme right out of the hit racing movie “Days of Thunder.”
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The Mello Yello ride of Cole Trickle will fly around a track again, this time carrying the No. 42 on the Chevrolet. Kyle Petty drove the Mello Yello scheme as his primary paint scheme from 1991-93 on the No. 42.
Mello Yello was born to bond with racing, announced as the “World’s Fastest Soft Drink” when it launched in 1979 and sponsored Frank Oblesby’s dragster.
“This paint scheme has such a cool history between the movie and Kyle Petty having run it for Felix, so I’m really excited to drive it,” Larson said Wenesday. ” ‘Days of Thunder’ is definitely one of my favorite racing movies, and I know it’s a favorite for a lot of fans, too. The connection with Felix is pretty cool. Even though I was too young to watch Kyle Petty driving the Mello Yello car, I know people will remember the scheme from those days, as well as his crazy hair from back then. There’s just a lot of fun stuff surrounding this car, so I’m really glad that the Target team is able to run it for Darlington’s throwback race. I think the fans are really going to like it.”
Larson tweeted a tease about the scheme to fans on Tuesday, asking “Can you tell we’re excited for @TooToughToTame?!”
FYI, Larson was born two years after the movie’s 1990 premiere, but shows he appreciates the 25th anniversary of the film.
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