NASCAR Announces Zac Brown Band As Headliner For South Beach Fan Event
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‘Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive’ To Feature Two Full Days
Of Fan Events Including Free Concert And NASCAR Team Hauler Parade
Of Fan Events Including Free Concert And NASCAR Team Hauler Parade
Zac Brown Band
“Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive” rolls into town on Thursday, Nov. 18, with a grand-arrival parade of NASCAR race team “haulers” convoying Miami Beach to kick off the free two-day fan fest and concert. Scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. ET on Miami Beach at Lummus Park (between 7th and 9th Streets), GRAMMY®-award winning (Best New Artist) Zac Brown Band will perform fan favorites and songs from their new album “You Get What You Give,” which was released Sept. 21 and earned the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Country Albums charts.
“As NASCAR fans get ready for one of the most exciting weekends in all of motorsports anywhere in the world, ‘Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive’ is a chance to show our appreciation to the most loyal fans in sports,” said NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France. “Our partners have done a great job collaborating with Homestead-Miami Speedway and NASCAR to create a true marquee event for all fans enjoying a weekend crowning new champions for all three of our national series.”
NASCAR fans are familiar with the Georgia-based Zac Brown Band following performances at the October 2009 Talladega race and the 2010 Budweiser Shootout At Daytona. NASCAR also will feature Zac Brown Band’s unique sound– which blends country, roots, reggae and Southern rock– in a high-profile advertising campaign airing in the beginning of the 2011 NASCAR racing season during race broadcasts, similar to previous programs with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Matchbox 20, O.A.R. and Lenny Kravitz.
“We’re excited to be a part of the NASCAR Championship Drive,” said Zac Brown. “Over the past few years we’ve had the opportunity to participate in a few NASCAR events and it’s always fun for the whole band. Not only does everyone make us feel at home when we’re on the track but we have a great respect for the sport itself.”
“Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive” will take place at Lummus Park and offer distinct areas of participation from official NASCAR partners, including the Coca-Cola Refreshment Center, Coors Light Beer Garden, and interactive fan areas from Camping World, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Kraft, Nationwide Insurance, Sprint, Sunoco, Toyota and more.
Fans in attendance will enjoy driver question-and-answer sessions, contests such as “Fast Lane Trivia,” giveaways from the NASCAR Street Tour, and the “NASCAR Hot and Spicy Cook-off” competition featuring chefs representing fire departments throughout Miami-Dade County. Fans also will be able to drive race car simulators, change tires in a pit crew challenge, test their skills piloting remote-controlled cars, get their photographs taken inside a stock car, check out the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series trophy and more.
“With the first ever ‘Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive’, we’re offering fans a new way to come together and celebrate the culmination of the championships across all three series,” said Beatriz Perez, chief marketing officer, Coca-Cola North America. “With an exciting live performance in South Beach and the concert streamed online, we continue to bring NASCAR fans closer to Coca-Cola and the sport they love – both at the track and beyond.”
“We have very unique partners in NASCAR and Coca-Cola who recognize the value in shifting into another gear for Ford Championship Weekend,” said Homestead-Miami Speedway President Matt Becherer. “Miami knows how to host championships, and a live performance on the beach with Zac Brown Band amps up an already phenomenal experience for race fans coming to see NASCAR’s 2010 champions crowned. We’re looking forward to getting Ford Championship Weekend started early.”
Promotional support for “Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive” will include a heavy presence on NASCAR.COM, including a dedicated micro-site; outdoor and radio advertisements on Miami’s WKIS-FM and WAXY-AM; newspaper ads in the Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel and Miami New Times; and a social media campaign on Facebook and Twitter.
The “Coca-Cola Fuels NASCAR Championship Drive” was created with the support of the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority, the Miami-Dade Sports Commission, the Florida Sports Foundation and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.
ABOUT NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for one of North America’s premier sports. NASCAR is the No. 1 spectator sport – with more of the top 20 highest attended sporting events in the U.S. than any other sport, and is the No. 2-rated regular-season sport on television. NASCAR races are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages. NASCAR fans are the most brand loyal in all of sports, and as a result more Fortune 500 companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for one of North America’s premier sports. NASCAR is the No. 1 spectator sport – with more of the top 20 highest attended sporting events in the U.S. than any other sport, and is the No. 2-rated regular-season sport on television. NASCAR races are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages. NASCAR fans are the most brand loyal in all of sports, and as a result more Fortune 500 companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport.
NASCAR consists of three national series (the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series), four regional series, and one local grassroots series, as well as two international series. Also part of NASCAR is GRAND-AM Road Racing, known for its competition on road courses with multiple classes of cars. NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races at 100 tracks in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico. Based in Daytona Beach (Fla.), NASCAR has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Charlotte (N.C.), Concord (N.C.), Conover (N.C.), Bentonville (Ark.), Mexico City, and Toronto.
About Zac Brown Band
Named GRAMMY’s “Best New Artist” in 2010, Zac Brown Band are currently nominated for the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” award. The band’s sophomore album ‘You Get What You Give’ (Atlantic/Southern Ground Artists, Inc.) debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and features guest appearances by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett. The band’s double platinum-certified, major label debut ‘The Foundation’ (Atlantic Records) was one of Billboard’s Top 20 albums of 2009 and features the band’s first five No. 1 hit singles including “Chicken Fried” and “Free.” Zac Brown Band is represented by ROAR, a Beverly Hills-based management company. Additional information can be found at http://www.zacbrownband.com/.
Named GRAMMY’s “Best New Artist” in 2010, Zac Brown Band are currently nominated for the Country Music Association’s “Entertainer of the Year” award. The band’s sophomore album ‘You Get What You Give’ (Atlantic/Southern Ground Artists, Inc.) debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and features guest appearances by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett. The band’s double platinum-certified, major label debut ‘The Foundation’ (Atlantic Records) was one of Billboard’s Top 20 albums of 2009 and features the band’s first five No. 1 hit singles including “Chicken Fried” and “Free.” Zac Brown Band is represented by ROAR, a Beverly Hills-based management company. Additional information can be found at http://www.zacbrownband.com/.
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