CarsDirect.com Names First ''Drive Like the King'' Winner in NASCAR Promotion; Inaugural Winner Gets Trip to Las Vegas for Richard Petty Driving Experience, Chance to Win Stock Car.Automotive Writers LOS ANGELES--(AutomotiveWire)--April 26, 2000 The "Winner's Circle win·ner's circle n. pl. winners' circles An enclosed area at a racetrack where the winning horse and jockey are brought for awards and publicity. Noun 1. " is a bit crowded today as S. Pharr revels in his First Prize victory in the CarsDirect.com "Drive Like the King" sweepstakes -- while leading automotive e-tailer CarsDirect.com celebrates the rousing success of the first month of its online sweepstakes, which to date has attracted more than 45,000 participants. S. Pharr of Elkin, Ill., is the first of 15 First Prize winners to be selected over the course of the sweepstakes, which will extend throughout the NASCAR racing The NASCAR Racing series of video games, developed by Papyrus, started in 1994 and ended with the release of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season in 2003. Later NASCAR games were released by Electronic Arts, who took over the official sport license. season. First Prize winners receive an expenses-paid trip to attend the Richard Petty Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver. "The King," as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat),winning a record 200 races Driving Experience in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , where they will meet the legendary Richard Petty and drive the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of four different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. , site of this year's CarsDirect.com 400 Winston Cup race. In addition, each of the first place winners is eligible to win the grand prize -- a genuine Richard Petty Driving Experience stock car, presented by the seven-time Winston Cup Champion himself. CarsDirect.com's "Drive Like the King" Sweepstakes is the first in a series of innovative, Web site-driven promotions developed as part of the company's ongoing commitment to car enthusiasts everywhere. Since the sweepstakes' launch on March 5, more than 45,000 visitors have registered to win via the CarsDirect.com Web site. More than 5,000 of these registered visitors referred an average of four friends each to enter the sweepstakes. In all, the promotion has generated nearly 186,000 individual page views of the CarsDirect.com Web site. "This is a great day for our first `Drive like the King' sweepstakes winner and for CarsDirect.com," said Chuck Hoover, vice president of marketing, CarsDirect.com. "We're delighted to be able to give the first winner a chance to learn stock car racing
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States and Great Britain held largely on oval rings of between approximately a quarter-mile and 2. and get tips from the great Richard Petty. Sweepstakes participants are passionate about this sport and genuinely value the opportunity to bring the 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. experience home." "Although this promotion is still young, it's already been an outstanding traffic generator for CarsDirect.com," Hoover continued. "We're attracting true car enthusiasts who are spreading the news Spreading the News is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, 27 Dec. 1904. It was on a double bill with William Butler Yeats's On Baile's Strand. about the chance to win to all their friends. With CarsDirect.com, the process of getting a new car is more enjoyable, and we're doing what we can to enable one lucky race fan to have a `new car experience' like no other." Enabling Race Fans to "Drive Like the King" In the CarsDirect.com's "Drive Like the King" Sweepstakes, one Grand Prize winner will receive a Richard Petty Driving Experience stock car, and 15 First Prize winners have the chance to drive a stock car after receiving tips and helpful hints from the legendary seven-time Winston Cup Champion himself, Richard Petty. To enter the "Drive Like the King" Sweepstakes, entrants simply need to log onto the CarsDirect.com Web site at http://www.carsdirect.com and click on the CarsDirect.com 400 logo. After they fill out the online registration form (no purchase is necessary), participants will receive one entry in the Sweepstakes. They also will earn two additional entries for each friend they refer who completes registration in the Sweepstakes. Participants have until Oct. 31, 2000, to accrue a total of up to 22 entries to "Drive Like The King." CarsDirect.com will randomly choose one First Prize winner at the end of each month during the 2000 NASCAR season, except the final week when seven winners will be chosen -- in honor of the number of Winston Cup Championships Richard Petty won during his celebrated career. The 15 First Prize winners will receive an expenses-paid trip to attend the Richard Petty Driving Experience School in Las Vegas. There they will meet the legendary Richard Petty himself and drive the same Las Vegas Motor Speedway track that hosts the CarsDirect.com 400. At the end of the driving experience, one lucky winner will walk away with the Grand Prize -- a genuine Richard Petty Driving Experience stock car. About CarsDirect.com CarsDirect.com (www.carsdirect.com), the leading automotive e-tailer, is the first nationwide online service that puts consumers in control of the total car buying experience -- from research, pricing and customization to financing and delivery. With CarsDirect.com, car buyers can see and compare real, upfront prices on virtually every vehicle sold in the U.S, obtain a loan or lease, place their orders directly online and arrange for home or office delivery. More than 2,500 franchised dealers are a part of CarsDirect.com's Priority Dealer Network. Based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CarsDirect.com is an idealab! company. The company is also funded by idealab! Capital Partners, Primedia Ventures, Foundation Capital, MSD (MicroSoft Diagnostics) A utility that accompanied Windows 3.1 and DOS 6 that reported on the internal configuration of the PC. A variety of information on disks, video, drivers, IRQs and port addresses was provided. Capital LP, Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. , Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Hambrecht & Quist, E*O Investors, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Oracle Corp., Liberty Digital, TMCT TMCT Trailer Mounted Communications Tower Ventures, L.P, Hikari Tsushin and Soros Private Equity Partners LLC. |
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