Daytona 500 Tickets - Keith Urban Performs at 'Great American Race'

He may hail from Australia, but country crooner Keith Urban is no stranger to America?s favorite pastime The Grammy Award-winning Nashville idol has been wowing crowds with his mad guitar skills and dashing looks for the last decade, and now he?s taking his stylish contemporary country act to the racetrack as he prepares to perform at the Daytona 500 Pre-Race Show at the Daytona International Speedway in February

He may hail from Australia, but country crooner Keith Urban is no stranger to America?s favorite pastime. The Grammy Award-winning Nashville idol has been wowing crowds with his mad guitar skills and dashing looks for the last decade, and now he?s taking his stylish contemporary country act to the racetrack as he prepares to perform at the Daytona 500 Pre-Race Show at the Daytona International Speedway in February. Urban is set to perform three of his number one hit singles prior to the 51st running of the ?Great American Race? the Daytona 500, and NASCAR fans far and wide will get to celebrate the prestigious stock car race in style as the tight tee-shirt-wearing Urban takes the stage to kick off the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

On February 15, Keith Urban joins a long list of country music stars to perform in the Daytona 500 Pre-Race show, and his name will sit below those of Brooks & Dunn, Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, LeAnn Rimes and Mariah Carey, who have all pumped up the NASCAR crowd before a running of the Daytona 500. Urban will also spend time surrounding this year?s Daytona festivities as part of a ticket package, which includes Pre-Race and VIP access, a Superstretch ticket and the chance for fans to meet Urban himself. To get in on the exciting Daytona 500 action, get Daytona 500 tickets and head down to the racetrack!

The Daytona 500 is one if not the most celebrated event on the NASCAR calendar every year, as the 200-lap, 500-mile race signals the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. The race is held at Daytona Beach, Florida?s Daytona International Speedway, and the stock car race draws in record crowds each year from across the country. The ?Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing? first ensued in 1959, a crowd of 41,000 fans witnessing history as Johnny Beauchamp sped into Victory Lane and appeared to be the first unofficial Daytona 500 winner. Days later, however, the race was replayed and Lee Petty clearly had the edge over Beauchamp by a few feet, snagging the title from Beauchamp as the first-ever Daytona 500 victor. Since then, NASCAR legends like Richard Petty, Mario Andretti, Cale Yarbrough, Bill Elliott, Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson have all took home the prize in annual runnings of the event. Penske?s Ryan Newman is the most recent winner of the Daytona 500, winning the gold in his No. 12 Dodge stock car.

The 2009 Daytona 500 is set to be just as thrilling as ever, and all of racing?s greatest contenders like Dario Franchitti, Jimmie Johnson, Sam Hornish Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bobby Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Kyle Petty, John Andretti, Jeff Burton and more are getting ready to start their engines in the 51st running of the annual NASCAR event. For a firsthand view of the fastest drivers in the world, get tickets to the Daytona 500 from http://www.stubhub.com/daytona-500-tickets and head down to Florida?s Daytona International Speedway for an action-packed day of true NASCAR beauty.

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