NASCAR to honor the victims and heroes of 9/11 at Richmond playoff flee

NASCAR shall be honoring the heroes and victims of 9/11 at its 2d-spherical playoff weekend at Richmond Raceway.

NASCAR worked with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on the tributes, which encompass a recovered 1,100-pound a part of steel from the approach the head of the World Trade Center that change into keep on demonstrate in the song’s midway spectator home with the relieve of the Henrico County First Responders.

A Wall of Remembrance supplied by flee sponsor Toyota will moreover be nearby for followers and personnel to pay their respects to those lost.

Several automobiles in both the Race Bowling 250 Xfinity Sequence flee and the Federated Auto Parts 500 Salute to First Responders Cup Sequence races will characteristic special paint schemes for the day.

Amongst the many racers driving special automobiles are Dale Earnhardt Jr., who shall be returning to the song for the Xfinity flee in a automobile featuring a United for The united states livery inspired by Floor Zero’s Tribute in Lights. 

Earnhardt obtained the significant Cup Sequence flee held after the assaults at Dover in 2001 and carried an American flag at some level of his victory lap.

Cup Sequence driver Aric Almirola’s Ford will wear We Will Below no conditions Omit messaging and Erik Jones shall be gradual the wheel of a Chevrolet with a Below no conditions Omit motif.

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The Cup Sequence flee shall be preceded by a parade lap led by first responder automobiles as teams and followers defend American flags and 9/11 Memorial and Museum flags. A a banner with the names of the 2,977 of us lost shall be unfurled over Turn 4 earlier than the Henrico Fireplace Choir sings the National Anthem, adopted by a rendition of God Bless The united states by the Air Drive Refrain and the “initiating your engines” represent given by a neighborhood of first responders.

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A collection of items and equipment broken-down at some level of the flee shall be auctioned by The NASCAR Foundation to settle on money for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s Below no conditions Omit Fund.