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Former Miss New Jersey USA becomes NASCAR fans’ ‘Friend on the Inside’

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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – May 16, 2014 – Nearly 1.5 million fans and followers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were given the first look this morning as Sprint unveiled the newest member of the 2014 Miss Sprint Cup lineup, Julianna White of Haddon Township, N.J. Since Monday, four-year Miss Sprint Cup veteran Kim Coon and rookie Madison Martin have posted clues on the Miss Sprint Cup social networks hinting at White’s identity.

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White, a former Miss New Jersey USA, is the youngest in her family, with one older sister and 38 first cousins. In 2011, she graduated with a degree in Communication Studies from The College of New Jersey. White was a reporter for the college’s news station, was heavily involved in the theater program, and was an active member of the Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity.

Since graduating, White has worked in Philadelphia at QVC, one of the nation’s top home shopping networks as one of its in-house models. 

"I am most excited to see all of the different tracks up close, learn more about their histories, and meet the best fans in all of sports," said White. "I grew up playing soccer, basketball and running track so the excitement of competition is something I have always thrived on and it’s something I am ready to experience at the track."

White is making her debut this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway as the track plays host to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Weekend. Fans can meet White at Sprint’s 14,400-square-foot mobile-marketing display, The Sprint Experience, at 2:15 p.m. during her first autograph session. The Sprint Experience is located across from the Smith Tower in the Charlotte Motor Speedway Fan Zone.  

Proudly serving as the NASCAR fans’ "Friend on the Inside," the three Miss Sprint Cup ambassadors represent the Sprint brand around the track at every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event and in Victory Lane. Through her social media presence, Miss Sprint Cup brings race fans closer to the sport they love by delivering behind-the-scenes pictures, updates and videos via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

 

Follow Miss Sprint Cup on Facebook at Facebook.com/MissSprintCup, Twitter @MissSprintCup or Instagram @MissSprintCup. 

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Qualifying for the Sprint All-Star Race will take place Saturday at 7:10 p.m. ET (FS1)

CONCORD, N.C. — With eight career victories and one runner-up finish in the Sprint Cup Series championship race, it was tough for Clint Bowyer to stomach the idea that he had to qualify to be considered an all-star at NASCAR’s top level.

"It sucked," he said. "I wasn’t very thrilled about being in this race, but nonetheless, that’s what we deserved. We haven’t run well, haven’t run where we’re capable of running, and it’s been frustrating. But it’s a humbling sport. It always has been. I’m a big boy. If this is where we are, we’ve got to go out there and race hard and qualify into that race and become an All‑Star."

And that’s just what the Michael Waltrip Racing driver did Friday night, when he used four fresh tires to zip past Austin Dillon with 17 laps remaining, and cruise to a victory in the Sprint Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The win earned Bowyer a berth in Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race, where he will be joined by Saturday’s runner-up, AJ Allmendinger, and surprise fan vote winner Josh Wise.

"Sorry we’re in this deal," Bowyer told his team over the radio after clinching the victory. Without a points win since Charlotte in the fall of 2012, Bowyer did not receive an automatic berth into the main event, but raced his way in by leading 19 of the 40 laps in Friday night’s qualifier.

Allmendinger, who raced his way into the All-Star event in 2008 by winning the Showdown, led 18 laps until Bowyer took control late. The JTG Daugherty Racing driver was one of several — along with Dillon, Paul Menard and Danica Patrick — who took two tires in the night’s only pit stop, but Allmendinger was the only one to make them stand up. While Allmendinger wasn’t really able to challenge Bowyer at the end, he easily outdistanced Casey Mears for the runner-up spot.

"I knew Clint was fast, but I knew we were pulling away from everybody else," Allmendinger said. "Overall, just really proud of this race team. … We’ll do the same thing tomorrow, just take it step by step to make it better. And if we got a shot to win a million dollars, we’re going to go for it."

Kyle Larson challenged early, but lost third gear on a restart and was never a factor again. The event’s only incident unfolded when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. turned Marcos Ambrose four laps in, forcing the Richard Petty Motorsports to try and rally from the rear of the 23-driver field. Ambrose nearly made it, climbing all the way to fourth at the checkered flag, but didn’t have enough car or time to get any more than that.

"I was just racing hard there with Ricky," Ambrose said. "I passed him off of (Turn) 4 and slid up the racetrack just with the loose rear end, so I defended myself into Turn 1 and I guess he didn’t like it. He’s gotten me three times now, so I’m kind of getting sick of that."

Added Stenhouse: "He got to the inside of me in (Turn) 3, so I let him go and he slipped off of 4 and I got back underneath him. Then he wanted to run me in the grass, so I kind of lifted a little bit. Then I went back to the gas and got up to the inside of him again and he wanted to run me in the grass a second time, so the third time going into 1 I just didn’t lift. He does that to everybody, so it is what it is."

For Bowyer, the night was a glimmer of hope in a trying season, one that saw him fall to 20th in points after spinning out and finishing 23rd on his home track a week ago at Kansas. Intermediate facilities like 1.5-mile Charlotte have been a particular struggle for the No. 15 team, so this week he and crew chief Brian Pattie discussed a change in approach.

"It’s just been a crummy year," Bowyer said. "It’s just been one of those years that’s been so confusing. We’ve been really fast in practice, and for whatever reason, not able to back it up in the race. Last weekend was just crazy frustrating again for us. I was at the shop at lot this week, had a lot of meetings, and just kind of had a different thought process to change out approach for the race weekend."

If Friday was any indication, the results were hopeful. And there was one more bonus — thanks to the Showdown being contested on Friday night, Bowyer will get to qualify for the All-Star Race rather than automatically start near the rear of the field.

"You got it," he said with a wry grin. "They’re totally screwed."

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Dale Jr. shares insight into winning at Charlotte Motor Speedway

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CONCORD, N.C. — When a rookie Dale Earnhardt Jr. won what is now called the Sprint All-Star Race in 2000, the winner’s check was $500,000. What did he do with the money?

"I don’t think I ever saw it," NASCAR’s most popular driver said Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "I was racing for Daddy back then."

Indeed, Earnhardt was wheeling a Dale Earnhardt Inc., entry at the time, and the scene in Victory Lane — a beaming father and son embracing one another — remains more vivid than the event itself. Now driving for Hendrick Motorsports, the two-time Daytona 500 champion gets a chance at another big check in Saturday night’s non-points exhibition, which is comprised primarily of race winners from the past year and pays a cool $1 million to win.

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"There’s a lot of money on the line this weekend, which is basically all we’re going to be racing for," Earnhardt said. "But there’s a lot to be learned, too, so you try to pay attention to what you’re doing, what you’re feeling in the car so you can use it next week."

That would be the Coca-Cola 600, the marathon event at Charlotte that stands as one of the biggest on the Sprint Cup Series schedule. With no nighttime practices scheduled for a race that begins in the late afternoon and ends under the lights, the All-Star Race might approximate the closest thing to track conditions for the following weekend. But don’t let them fool you — as much as drivers may talk about using the race as a springboard for the 600, the $1 million at stake looms as large as a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror.

"The crowd gets jacked up, and of course there is nothing important on the line besides a million bucks," Kyle Busch said. "You just go out there and race as hard as you can."

How hard? With no points to worry about, past All-Star races have offered fireworks on the track to rival the pyrotechnics used in the rock-concert driver introductions. The event’s early history featured Kyle Petty and Davey Allison wrecking one another at the finish, and Darrell Waltrip and Rusty Wallace feuding over a race that paid $200,000 at the time. More recent years have seen brothers Kyle and Kurt Busch wiping one another out with aggressive racing, and Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch seething at one another in the garage area afterward.

This year’s format consists of five segments, the first four 20 laps apiece. The finale is a 10-lap sprint that follows a realignment of the running order based on average finish in the opening three segments, and then a mandatory four-tire pit stop. How feisty things get at the finish may hinge on how close other drivers are to the leader in that final 10-lap dash.

"I think it depends on how within reach the million dollars really is," Earnhardt said. "If you can reach out and grab somebody, you’ll get pretty aggressive for a million dollars. It just depends on whether somebody’s within reach. If a guy jumps out that last 10 laps and gets a good lead, what can you do? What are you going to be able to do? If you can run a guy down, it’s going to get interesting. If somebody gets within reach of somebody anytime, really in those last 10 laps, it’s going to get pretty aggressive between both drivers, I think. You have to hope it’s going to be close, unless I’m leading. If we’re leading, I hope we’re leading by a straightaway. Hope it’s real boring."

Added Carl Edwards: "I have a feeling if you have a green-white-checkered restart for a million bucks, it’s going to be an expensive salvage yard in Turn 1."

Next week in the 600, drivers might cede positions to one another during the early stages of the race, knowing they have to hang in there until the finish. In the shorter All-Star event, that tempered approach disappears. "In this race, everybody races each other as hard as they can for every spot the whole race. So that’s a little different," said 2004 winner Matt Kenseth. "But when you get down to the end, it’s like our typical races — when you get ready for that final pit stop, you’re not giving anybody a spot."

Then it comes down to hunting down the leader — something no one was able to do last year as Jimmie Johnson won by nearly two seconds en route to his second straight and record fourth overall victory in the race. All of which makes Kenseth wonder if a shorter track might prove a better fit for the event than 1.5-mile Charlotte.

"A lot of time the leader gets out there in that short 10-lap run and it’s just hard for anybody to get to them. It’s just this type of racing," he said. "I think there are other tracks where it wouldn’t be that way — you get to some shorter tracks, watch the last Richmond race, or even Bristol as different speeds as the lanes are now. Martinsville. Some of those tracks, certainly you’d have potential for contact and conflicts and conflicts after the race, those type of things. At a track where you’re doing 190, 200 (mph) and the aerodynamics are going on, it’s less likely for that type of thing to happen."

Given that Charlotte has hosted the exhibition since 1987, that seems unlikely at best. In the meantime, the emphasis falls on drivers getting everything they can out of those first four segments, to put themselves in position to challenge the leader — and go after $1 million in the process.

"You need to be up front at the last restart, obviously. You’re not going to drive through a handful of guys. As late as it gets in the night, this track, the groove narrows up. It gets faster and faster at the bottom, and there’s no time to be gained by stepping up the race track or running the high line like you might here in the afternoon. … So you need to be in that top three, I think, to have a shot at it," Earnhardt said.

"Unless those guys kind of get bottled up banging on each another, and somebody scoots around on a restart real quick, I don’t know that you’re going to have much of a chance of winning the race. That doesn’t sound all that great, but what it does do is make everything in the first several segments count, and it makes you hustle in all those segments to get everything you can. … The way it’s laid out actually really pushes you to work every lap, every single restart. Every opportunity you can get to seize a position, you want to do it."

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CONCORD, N.C. — In a race that ran according to form, Clint Bowyer beat AJ Allmendinger to the finish line by 2.547 seconds Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, as the drivers finished 1-2 in the Sprint Showdown and advanced to Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.
 
The biggest upset of the evening, and one of the biggest in recent NASCAR history, came in the Sprint Fan Vote, with Josh Wise elected to the all-star event over odds-on favorite Danica Patrick, who will sit out the event in her second full season of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing.
 
Allmendinger grabbed the lead from pole winner Austin Dillon on the opening lap and held it until Bowyer passed him with two laps left in the first of two 20-lap segments. Bowyer restarted the second segment in sixth place, as the first car on four new tires, but it didn’t take him long to overtake Dillon, who made a two-tire stop under caution between the segments.

Bowyer passed Dillon for the lead on Lap 24 of 40 and held it the rest of the way, gradually pulling away from Allmendinger, who like Dillon took two fresh tires on his pit stop.
 
After a disappointing start to the season, and a particularly frustrating race last Saturday night at Kansas Speedway, Bowyer and crew chief Brian Pattie hashed out their performance issues during the week.
 
"I spent a lot of time with Brian in the shop this week, and we really talked about a lot of things," Bowyer said. "I feel like we got to the bottom of a lot of our problems. We came here with a little bit different setup than we’ve been running at these mile-and-a-half (speedways).
 
"It’s a huge improvement. I’m really excited about all of this. I’m really more excited about the way our car handled … It’s not too many sporting events in the world that pay a million bucks to win, and it’s nice to have a shot at it (Saturday) night."
 
Allmendinger, who also had campaigned actively for the Sprint Fan Vote, and promised to do the "Worm" across the driver introduction stage if he won, earned the second transfer spot on the track.
 
Allmendinger had a story similar to Bowyer’s, relative to his performance on intermediate tracks.
 
"We’ve really struggled on these mile-and-a-half race tracks this year," Allmendinger said. "We’re not quite where we want to be yet, but I feel like we’re definitely making the car better."
 
Casey Mears ran third Friday night, followed by Richard Petty Motorsports teammates Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola. Kyle Larson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Dillon, Paul Menard and Patrick completed the top 10.
 
Eighteenth-place finisher Wise, whose Phil Parsons-owned team recently picked up sponsorship from Dogecoin and Reddit.com, got huge support in the Fan Vote from the on-line community.
 
"I’m still trying to wrap my head around it," said Wise, whose campaign gained momentum after a posting by a teenager on Reddit.com. "They (the Reddit community) started voting for this, and I thought it would be a pretty tough thing to accomplish, but they did it.
 
"It’s unreal. I’m just glad to be a part of it."

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Shows dominance by leading 130 of 134 laps in Truck Series race

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CONCORD, N.C.— After Friday night’s dominating performance at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch is a full-fledged, bona fide member of the "Untouchables," at least where the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is concerned.
 
Leading 130 of 134 laps after starting his Toyota on the pole for the North Carolina Education Lottery 200, Busch claimed his third truck series triumph in as many starts this season and his fourth consecutive dating to last year’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
 
The victory was Busch’s 38th in the series and his sixth at Charlotte.

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"It was a fun race for us," Busch said. "We certainly had a dominant piece. We were just really, really strong, especially on the long runs. I beat ‘em a little bit here or there, but it seemed like in traffic, I didn’t lose as much as most of the other guys."
 
Matt Crafton ran second, giving Busch and the defending series champion their second straight 1-2 finish after last week’s run at Kansas Speedway.
 
Brad Keselowski came home third, followed by John Wes Townley, who posted his career-best result. Timothy Peters ran fifth after pitting for tires under the final caution.
 
After the race, Keselowski summed up Busch’s dominance succinctly.
 
"I think Kyle is probably in a class of his own," Keselowski said. "It would have been a great race if Kyle wasn’t here."
 
Keselowski got a quick second from Crafton.
 
"It’s damned frustrating to finish second to him two weeks in a row," said Crafton, who extended his series lead to 11 points over Peters.
 
Busch had led 100 of the first 104 laps – the only exceptions coming when Joe Nemechek stayed out under the fifth caution – when Townley knocked Ryan Blaney’s Ford into the infield grass from a three-wide logjam in the tri-oval.
 
Townley careened into the outside wall, collecting the Toyota of Brian Ickler, to cause the seventh caution, a yellow-flag period that gave contending trucks behind Busch the chance to pit for new tires.
 
Keselowski, on new tires, advanced from 10th to seventh after a restart on Lap 114, but on that same lap, Ron Hornaday Jr. spun on the backstretch across the nose of Turner Scott Motorsports teammate Ben Kennedy, collecting the trucks of Mason Mingus and Jake Crum in the process.
 
"I had a good run, and I thought I cleared Ben, and I didn’t," Hornaday explained, apologizing for the contact.
 
Keselowski climbed to third after the final restart with 13 laps left but couldn’t catch Crafton for second. The race ended under caution when Jeb Burton spun through the tri-oval grass after Busch had taken the white flag.
 
Notes: The victory was the sixth straight in the series for Toyota, dating to November 2013 and matching the manufacturer’s longest NCWTS streak. … Busch has won 38 times in 118 truck series starts, a remarkable winning percentage of 32.2. … Busch scored his 29th perfect driver rating in NASCAR’s top three national series combined.

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JRM driver’s double duty: Racing in Iowa and high school commencement

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Chase Elliott‘s NASCAR higher education began in February, but he graduates high school on Saturday.

Heeding his parents’ "suggestion," the 18-year old NASCAR Nationwide Series championship leader will spend this weekend commuting 882 miles each way between the series’ first standalone event at Iowa Speedway and his commencement exercises at Kings Ridge Christian School back home in Dawsonville, Ga.

Elliott will practice his JR Motorsports No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts Chevy on Friday, walk on stage and get his diploma Saturday morning then qualify the car Saturday night and race Sunday.

It will be a busy three days, but Elliott’s hoping to cap the weekend by celebrating both the academic accomplishment and what would be a series best third win in Iowa’s Victory Lane.

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"At first I kind of had the mindset, I didn’t want to go [to graduation], just go to Iowa and focus on the race weekend," Elliott said. "The more I talked to people, [crew chief] Greg Ives being one of them, and my parents [former Cup champ and NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2015 nominee Bill Elliott and Cindy] — my mom especially — she wanted me to go and be a part of it.

"It’s something that if you don’t do it, you’ll wish you had looking back on it later on. There’s no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life, and high school graduation you only do once. I know it’s weather dependent. Hope it stays good enough to make it back and forth."

Juggling school commitments and his burgeoning racing career is nothing new for Elliott. He typically missed a day or two of school during a race week, but has worked hard to maintain his grades. He chuckled this week that while he may not be at the very top of his class of 60 fellow grads, he does maintain at least a B in all of his classes.

"English has probably been the toughest to keep up with because it’s a class with a lot of valuable in-class discussion so when you’re gone, it makes it harder to write the essays and take the tests," Elliott explained. "Math is pretty straightforward.

"At times, it was a bit of a struggle but they work pretty well with me. The teachers are used to it and have been good to me."

Elliott’s growing legion of NASCAR can fans can attest he’s a quick learner judging by his two wins and one-point lead in the Nationwide Series championship as a Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender.

He’s only finished out of the top-10 twice in nine races and nearly won three in a row last month — with back-to-back victories at Texas Motor Speedway and Darlington Raceway and a runner-up at Richmond International Raceway.

Ironically, the only full-time high school student in racing full time in NASCAR’s national series has been regularly schooling the competition — winning over the respect of veterans, racing door-to-door for wins despite his limited experience.

Elliott hopes the biggest benefit of having his high school diploma in hand will be the opportunity to devote more time to his racing team. His team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his veteran teammates — full-time Cup drivers Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne — have regularly praised Elliott’s work ethic and drive to constantly improve with each race. Elliott is eager to see how much better he can be with his sole focus on racing for the first time in his life.

"I feel like it’s going to be a good thing, good to have extra involvement, be at the shop, be at the competition meetings, just try to better that knowledge of after a race, what we need to do to improve," Elliott said. "I think that will be the biggest benefit of me being around more. I hope that helps things, helps the race team, helps the organization as a whole get better."

Sounding a whole lot wiser than his 18 years would normally indicate, Elliott was quick to follow that with an insightful observation.

"You still need a good balance of what we do away from racing, and I feel like school, for me, has been that balance," Elliott said. "It seems like all the Cup guys are having kids at the same time right now. Kevin Harvick is a good example about this. I hear from him how his having a son is such a good balance away from racing. I think you need it. Have to be mindful to have that balance while giving it the focus it needs."

There have been small life sacrifices along the way already. Elliott didn’t get to senior prom, for example. And he won’t be attending any graduation parties Saturday night. But he plans on catching up with his friends during an off-week in the schedule.

Even with his profile rising in national headlines and increased television time, Elliott joked he didn’t have a rash of invites to his senior prom anyway.

"Honestly, not really," Elliott said, laughing. "It would have been nice to have gone. It was Saturday night after Darlington, but I’d already made commitments to be there for the Cup race the next day so it was a little bit of a bummer not to go to the senior prom. But I did go last year so that’s better than nothing."

Elliott is already looking further ahead. But even as he enters this next phase in life and career, he is mindful of what got him there — appreciative of his parents’ support, grateful for the racing opportunities.

While other teenagers may hope for a fast car or a fun trip as graduation gifts, Elliott says he’s already received plenty.

"Racing is something I’ve always wanted to do, so it’s my dream come true," Elliott said, laughing and noting that he has no idea of what presents he may receive.

"Have to wait and see. I’m not complaining," Elliott said. "I’m good. I get to go race every weekend so I’m happy."

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Internet sensation overtakes reigning winner Danica Patrick

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CONCORD, N.C. — The fans have spoken.

Or, perhaps more specifically, those that frequent r/NASCAR Subreddit of social networking and news site Reddit.com have spoken.

Phil Parsons Racing’s unsung internet hero Josh Wise, who has 79 Sprint Cup Series starts and a career-best finish of 19th under his belt, has earned a berth into Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (9 p.m. ET, FS1) via the Sprint Fan Vote and a large contingent of Redditors who pitched in a few different ways.

"That’s unreal," Wise said. "I can’t believe that. That’s amazing. Thank you everybody watching."

But how did it happen, exactly? How did Wise, a relatively low-profile driver, unseat one of NASCAR’s most popular drivers in reigning winner Danica Patrick?

"I’m still trying to wrap my head around it," Wise said in his post-race news conference. "Really, it just started with a 16-year-old kid posting something on Reddit.com about some good runs that we’ve had and for whatever reason this huge, awesome community just got behind us."

In March, the Reddit community raised 67.8 million Dogecoins — a cryptocurrency that equates to about $55,000 — to help Wise put his No. 98 Ford in the Aaron’s 400 at Talladega Superspeedway. Dogecoin/Reddit again sponsored his No. 98 All-Star Weekend ride — this time a Chevrolet.

And in a true underdog — or should that be underdoge? — story, the same group of fans had a heavy influence on his case for the Sprint Fan Vote, as Wise overtook the Stewart-Haas Racing driver.

"Everybody knows about them raising money to sponsor us at Talladega and then it was on to the Fan Vote," Wise said. "I’m just super thankful to be a part of it, really. It’s been a cool experience. I really don’t have an answer (why the Reddit community picked me); it’s just one of those things, you know? If you asked me two months ago, there’s just no way I would’ve thought this was possible.

"Something I wanted to say, too, was that this is kind of a big deal for our sport, I felt like. It’s a lot of young kids and people from around the world and I’ve had a chance to interact with a lot of them and there’s a lot of people that never watched a NASCAR race who’ve now watched several, so this is a pretty cool deal."

Wise has started 10 of the series’ 11 races thus far in 2014 and stands 36th in points, even trailing a cast of rookies such as Justin Allgaier, Michael Annett, Cole Whitt and Alex Bowman. Not only that, but Patrick herself has close to 100 more points than Wise, making this whole scenario seem even more unlikely.

But the power of the Internet is strong, my friends.

"I saw the potential there. There’s 110 million people that regularly use Reddit, and there was a large portion of them that knew about this and were a part of it, I felt like. It’s one of those things where you didn’t know if people were just telling you they were voting for you or how many times they were voting, so I thought it was definitely a possibility."

Even if Wise doesn’t come home with the $1 million prize for finishing first in Saturday night’s race, he already considers himself a winner. This type of attention is enough to garner the attention of sponsors — which is the whole reason this thing started in the first place.

"It’s been really, really hard since I’ve been out here (in NASCAR). One of the challenges I’ve faced is gaining momentum through sponsorship and being in good opportunities to showcase what I think I can do, so this is a big deal because obviously we have a lot of people behind us. Hopefully it helps us to build our program here as we go forward." 

Wise will now join the pool of drivers trying to earn the top starting spot via Saturday’s Sprint All-Star Race Qualifying (7:10 p.m. ET, FS1).

Wise has never participated in the Sprint All-Star Race before. He placed 13th in the 2012 Sprint Showdown.

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Your view of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race could air on FOX Sports 1

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Whether you’re watching the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, at home or elsewhere, NASCAR Productions wants your video for special documentary.

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On Thursday, May 22 at 9:30 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1 will air "100,000 Cameras: The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race," using user-generated video. Tell the story of your race day, and make sure you hold your device horizontal and not up and down.

Then upload your video to Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Facebook or the Banjo app, using #100KCams and #SprintAllStar.

Check out the video below for more information. Tune in to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1 and shoot and upload your video.

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Former pit boss for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick to manufacture cars

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Former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series crew chief Tony Eury Jr. has been named general manager at LFR Chassis, Inc. in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Eury Jr. had two wins with cousin Dale Earnhardt Jr. at NASCAR’s highest level and also was Danica Patrick‘s NASCAR Nationwide Series crew chief for parts of three seasons at JR Motorsports from 2010-2012. From 2013 through early 2014, Eury Jr. had been competition director and a crew chief at Swan Racing.

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His new position is a reunion with fellow former Dale Earnhardt Inc. employee Rob Fuller, co-owner of Leavitt Fuller Racecars. Fuller and Eury Jr. first met in 1997 at DEI as part of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s NASCAR Nationwide Series team. The two also worked together in 2005 on Michael Waltrip‘s Cup ride.

"I’m excited to reunite with Rob and work together on this new venture," Eury Jr. said.  "We’re both racers at heart and take pride in running well and creating quality products."

LFR Chassis, Inc. manufacturers modified, late-model and super late-model cars. Eury Jr. will join the company next week and be responsible for daily management and oversight at the company.

"Tony is one of my closest friends and to have someone I have that relationship with looking over the business daily is priceless," Fuller said. "We have won a lot of races and championships together and I believe the best is yet to come. We are both rooted in short track racing and it’s great to be able to offer quality products from LFR Chassis to short track racers across the country."

Another veteran of the sport, Bob Yost, joined LFR Chassis Inc. this week. A chassis builder with over 10 years experience, Yost worked closely with Eury Jr. in building Gen-6 Cup chassis.

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See where the drivers will line up on pit road for the Sprint Showdown

The pit stall assignments are out for Friday night’s Sprint Showdown (7:15 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1).

Austin Dillon, who won the pole for the event, has the pit stall closest to the pit road exit.

The field consists of 23 drivers and all but three drivers have openings in front of their pit stalls. The drivers that do not have openings are David Stremme, Blake Koch and Joe Nemechek. All three drivers are starting in the final three spots in the lineup.

The race consists of two 20 lap segments with an optional pit stop in between both segments. The top finishers in the Sprint Showdown will advance to Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race (9:10 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1).

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