Kansas Speedway introduced on Thursday that Olympic gold medalist and Okay-State observe and subject assistant coach Tara Davis-Woodhall and Paralympic gold medalist Hunter Woodhall will give the command to begin engines prior to Sunday’s (Sept. 29) Hollywood Casino 400 introduced by ESPN BET.
“The prestige of earning a gold medal on the world stage is second to none,” Kansas Speedway President Pat Warren mentioned in an announcement. “We’re honored to have such respected athletes in Tara and Hunter say the most famous words in motorsports before we kick off another race at the most exciting track in NASCAR.”
The couple is without doubt one of the most achieved duos in all of contemporary Track and Field. Tara, a two-time Olympian, not too long ago gained gold (7.10m/23-3.50) within the girls’s lengthy soar at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The 25-year-old from Agoura Hills, Calif., recorded the second-best soar of the yr at 7.18m/ throughout the USA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. in March.
Hunter is a three-time Paralympian who took dwelling gold in Paris this summer time within the males’s 400 meter sprint (T62) in 46.36 seconds as properly as a bronze within the blended 4×100 common relay (47.32 seconds). Upon graduating from highschool in 2016, Woodhall grew to become the primary double-amputee observe and subject athlete to earn a Division I athletic scholarship, which he accepted from the University of Arkansas.
NASCAR returns to Kansas Speedway this weekend with 4 unbelievable races over three days. It begins Friday with a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series/ARCA Menards Series doubleheader and continues Saturday with the NASCAR Xfinity Series‘ Kansas Lottery 300. Then on Sunday, the celebs of the NASCAR Cup Series will compete within the Hollywood Casino 400 introduced by ESPN BET, the primary race within the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs‘ Round of 12.
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