Nextel Cup Chase Contenders Tour Times Square
Written by Allan Brewer · November 30, 2007
Bite of Big Apple Brings Out Throngs of OnLookers
by Allan Brewer
allan@fastmachines.com
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The best of NASCAR’s best circled the Big Apple Wednesday (November 29th) morning as over one hundred thousand curious New Yorkers got a taste of stock car racing on their own turf.
Nextel Cup 2007 Champion Jimmy Johnson led a parade of the series? top-ten drivers from the season past around a mile and a half route that encircled New York?s famous Times Square.
“It is something different and is a lot of fun,” Johnson said. “It is more relaxing than what I am accustomed to.?
“Not your typical crowd,” exclaims Bowyer
Johnson’s Hendricks Motorsport teammate Jeff Gordon, third-place championship points finisher Clint Bowyer, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Burton and Carl Edwards also participated in the noisy tour of Manhattan?s midtown.
“That’s not your typical crowd when you see all these people in suits watching you drive by,” admitted the awe-struck Bowyer.
The fun circuit of the city that never sleeps leads to Friday evening?s awards ceremony where Johnson will be feted for his second NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship. The event will be televised live from the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the heart of the city.
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Word is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was a bit unhappy with the victory lap around Times Square and the ensuing traffic jam it caused. He wanted to know who in City Hall issued a permit for it.