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The event highlighted Day Two of Champion’s Week in Las Vegas, and proved that the 12 qualifiers for this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup can enjoy a good laugh – generally at their own expense – and the opportunity to mingle with hundreds of NASCAR fans young and old.
Only Martin Truex Jr. was willing to predict in advance that he
was smarter than a group of fifth graders from Nellis Air Force Base’s Lomie
Heard Elementary School. That turned out to be the wrong decision, as neither
he nor Michael Waltrip Racing teammate Clint Bowyer were able to supply the correct
answers to a series of questions including math problems, term lengths for U.S.
Senators and the name of the line that separates the earth’s top and bottom
halves.
The event was hosted by Miss Sprint Cup, Kim Coon and former Las
Vegas Entertainer of the Year Kevin Burke, who plies his comic trade at Fremont
Street Experience’s Fitzgeralds Hotel and Casino.
“We drive cars for a reason,” admitted Kevin Harvick after one incorrect
response, apparently speaking for himself and his 11 colleagues.
In the end, current and former NASCAR Sprint Cup champions Brad
Keselowski and Tony Stewart emerged victorious. Stewart supplied the correct
answer, but only after giving Burke an opening to comment on the driver’s ample
midsection.
“You’ve still got your washboard stomach,” Burke told the
three-time champion. “You’re just carrying a load of laundry on it.”
Keselowski celebrated the victory by lifting the team’s fifth
grader overhead, trophy-style.
Also honored on Wednesday were this year’s finalists for the
Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award – Ron Eby, Michael Jackson, Ali McDonough
and Lorri Shealy Unumb – at an evening reception at Wynn Las Vegas. The NASCAR
Foundation will announce the Award winner during this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series Awards on Friday night
Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images for NASCAR
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