Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson named Daytona 500 expansive marshal
At some stage in the NFC Championship sport between the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers, the FOX Sports broadcast crew announced a tiny little bit of NASCAR news regarding the expansive marshal for inventory automobile racing’s season-opening match.
FOX, which may per chance per chance per chance also air the 66th running of the Daytona 500 on 18 February, announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will give the whisper to launch engines for the enviornment of 40 racers. With the four most renowned words in motorsports, the 51-yr-venerable actor and knowledgeable wrestler will safe the cars rolling for NASCAR’s crown jewel match.
He once served because the expansive marshal for the NASCAR Cup Sequence dart at Texas Motor Speedway in April, 2004, which used to be received byElliott Sadler.
It used to be not too lengthy in the past printed that Grammy-award winner and Trackhouse Racing co-owner Pitbull will make the pre-dart dwell efficiency for the dart.
The Daytona 500 formally kicks off the 2024 NASCAR Cup season with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. returning because the defending winner. But first, 36 Cup Sequence drivers and teams will head to Los Angeles for the third edition of the L.A. Conflict exhibition dart on the L.A. Memorial Coliseum.
In 2023, the whisper to launch engines for the Daytona 500 used to be given by a entire lot of legends of the sport in social gathering of NASCAR’s seventy fifth yr. They were Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano [who all competed in the race]to boot to Richard Petty, Jeff GordonBobby Allison, Bill Elliott, Dale Jarrett and Kurt Busch.
