Three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip will serve as the Grand Marshal for the Curb Records/Big Machine Vodka SPIKED Coolers All American 400 Presented by US Tank and Cryogenic Equipment.
Waltrip’s NASCAR career was among the greatest of all-time. Three Cup Series championships, 84 victories (fourth all-time), and a 1989 Daytona 500 win are just a few of the accolades that Waltrip can claim. He was induced into the NASCAR Hall of Fame with the 2012 class.
He was a two-time Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway track champion in 1970 and 1973. He won his first-career Cup Series race at Nashville in 1975 in the Music City USA 420.
Waltrip was a frequent competitor with the original ASA National Tour, winning seven races in 38 starts. His first career ASA win came in ASA’s first ever sanctioned event in November 1972 at Salem Speedway. The Midwest 300 featured three 100 lap segments, the last of which Waltrip drove from 32nd to the lead in just 44 laps before darkness ended the race on lap 80. That win came after the transmission went out on lap 19 of the first segment and missed the entire second segment fixing the car.
Two more of his ASA victories came at Nashville, including the 1987 All-American 400. Waltrip passed fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer and four-time ASA National Champion Mark Martin coming to the white flag to claim victory.
“ASA and Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway have such rich histories in short track racing,” said Waltrip. “I am looking forward to getting back to the track I called home for many years for the All American 400 and the return of ASA to Nashville.”
The event will be broadcast live by SPEED SPORT affiliate Midwest Tour.tv.