The latest from Jimmy Carter in Nashville

HAMPTON , Ga. (Aug. 12, 2009) – When the lights turn on for the Pep Boys Auto 500 on Sunday, Sept. 6 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, NASCAR will celebrate the return of Labor Day weekend racing in the South. Appeasing throngs of NASCAR diehards who have desired the date return to the South after a 2003 move to California , Atlanta Motor Speedway acquired the Labor Day weekend race in a scheduling coup prior to the 2009 season. While Atlanta Motor Speedway is starting a new tradition, NASCAR’s history book shows Atlanta has a long history tied to Labor Day weekend. Way back before NASCAR was even envisioned, racing first came to Atlanta 100 years ago in 1909. The first era of racing in Atlanta was founded by Coca-Cola tycoon Asa Candler who built a two-mile oval near what is now Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport . Candler drew the biggest names in racing – Barney Oldfield, Louis Chevrolet and Walter Christie – to Atlanta by rail. Ray Harroun, who wou...

First....from Twitter...Brad Paisley shot this from side stage...Diamond Rio in Sarnia,Ohio this weekend..Brad was the headliner... BP said they were his high school songs....and they still sound great... on to his music video..Welcome to the Future....I'm sure in non stop production.....He shot so in Times Square pre 4th when he was there for GMA....Then he shot the part with these Corvettes....old,new and prototype....Now I'm sure the prototype story( if thats what it is) is a good one... WOW....Loved my C car!

HAMPTON, Ga. (July 7, 2009) – A Pre-Race Party celebration has been added to the schedule for the Sept. 6 Pep Boys Auto 500, Atlanta Motor Speedway’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup night race, giving race fans stage-front access for driver introductions and a pre-race concert with Diamond Rio and Jason Michael Carroll. The Pre-Race Party will take place beginning at 4:30 p.m. on the Atlanta Motor Speedway frontstretch in front of the Champions Grandstand. The event features a combined two-hour concert with country legends Diamond Rio and rising-star Jason Michael Carroll and will be followed by pre-race festivities and NASCAR Sprint Cup driver introductions. A limited number of stage-front passes are available for purchase at the Atlanta Motor Speedway Ticket Office at 877-9-AMS-TIX or 770-946-4211, or online at www.atlantamotorspeedway.com . Pre-Race Party passes for stage-front access will sell for $49, with the first 200 specially-priced at $39. A Pep Boys Auto 500 ticket is require...