ADVISORY/Photo of specially-designed car driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. is Available on Business Wire's Web Site and newstream.com.Photo/Business/Entertainment/Sports Editors SMART NEWS PHOTO ADVISORY... --(BW SportsWire) The photo is on Business Wire's Web Site at http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.042001/bb1 Photo caption reads: Budweiser, the Official Beer of Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. and NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. , and Dale Earnhardt Incorporated (DEI) will team with Major League Baseball to promote the 2001 Mid-Summer Classic by incorporating a special All-Star Game paint scheme on Earnhardt Jr.'s # 8 Budweiser Monte Carlo. Earnhardt Jr. will drive the 2001 All-Star Game car in two NASCAR Winston Cup series races, May 19 at Lowe's Motor Speedway Lowe's Motor Speedway (formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway) is a speedway in Concord, North Carolina, north of Charlotte. It features a 1.5 mile long quad-oval track that seats 167,000 people, with room for 50,000 more spectators in the infield. and July 7 at Daytona International Speedway Daytona International Speedway is a superspeedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is a 2.5 mile (4 km) tri-oval race track facility with a seating capacity of 168,000 spectators. . The 72nd All-Star Game will be played on July 10 at SAFECO Field in Seattle. See BW SportsWire story 2192 for more information. |
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