NASCAR Personnel: Hearing that Exide’s former Director of Racing PR, Chris Dirato, has removed himself from consideration for one of the two media relations jobs which NASCAR is looking to fill for its Winston Cup Series. Apparently, the agency he works for, Kermish-Geylin Public Relations, recently landed a high-profile account in the NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series — the United States Army-sponsored Top Fuel dragster with driver Tony Schumacher — and he now oversees that program(6-21-2001)
