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Cruise returns to 'Days Of Thunder' racetrack for NASCAR event this weekend.


Byline: ANI

Washington, February 14 (ANI): Hollywood star The Hollywood Star was an idiosyncratic gossip tabloid published on an erratic schedule in Hollywood, California by William Kern, who wrote much of the magazine under the pseudonym "Bill Dakota.  Tom Cruise will be back to the racetrack where he filmed the flick 'Days Of Thunder', when he attends a 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.  event on Sunday.

The 'Mission Impossible' star is expected to be in the pace car at the start of the Daytona 500 race in Florida.

He recently revealed that he once got the chance to race around the track while filming 'Days of Thunder' in the late 1980s.

"My personal Daytona was getting up close to 200 miles per hour (and) personally driving around the track one afternoon. Having that opportunity to drive those cars on the track and meet those drivers... I loved it," Contacmusic quoted him as saying.

The online report further revealed that the event will also give Cruise a chance to meet his ex-wife Nicole Kidman's husband Keith Urban, as the country musician will give a performance before the NASCAR drama begins. (ANI)

Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency.  (ANI) - All Rights Reserved.

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