Three-time NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Darrell Waltrip is strapping in for this weekend’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park (Friday, 9:00pm/et) and Speed Channel is taking viewers along for the ride. Waltrip, a regular on Speed Channel’s Trackside program, will be wired for sound and his #17 Tide/ Give Kids the World Chevy will be equipped with extra cameras. Fox broadcast partners Larry McReynolds and Jeff Hammond will get in on the act, with Larry serving as DW’s spotter and Hammond taking position on the pit box. Both will have live mics as part of the live Speed Channel broadcast from IRP. Waltrip finished sixth in last year’s race on the .686-mile track. Waltrip’s brother, Michael, is the team owner and will be in the Speed Channel broadcast booth to help call the race.( Speed Channel ) AND The team will use the Tide group again for IRP. Tide along with Winston Cup #32 car owner Cal Wells feel like it’s important that they keep their crew involved. DW tested at Hickory Speedway last Thursday to test.( FoxSports ) AND MORE: The #17 Tide Chevrolet driven by Darrell Waltrip at Indianapolis Raceway Park’s (IRP) NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Aug. 1 will carry the colors of the Give Kids The World Village – a non-profit resort for children with life-threatening illnesses. With the paint scheme at IRP, Tide Racing kicks off a month-long awareness initiative for Give Kids The World. The campaign will culminate Aug. 31, 2003, with another special paint scheme on Ricky Craven’s #32 Tide Pontiac at Darlington Raceway’s Southern 500 – a design created by 19-year-old Lisa Healey of Amherst, N.Y., this year’s Tide/Give Kids The World Coloring Contest winner and sister of a wish child who visited the Village in 1998. In addition to the two special paint schemes, Tide is producing 1/64th-scale collectible die cast cars featuring Lisa’s design. Racing Champions donated 50,000 cars to help Tide raise funds for the Village – an effort that has raised more than $1.3 million in the past five years. Cars are available for a donation on www.blair.com beginning in August, with all proceeds going directly to Give Kids The World. Tide is joined this year by two of its #32 Tide Racing partners in support of Give Kids The World: Blair Corporation (and its website, Blair.com), the nation’s premier multi-channel direct marketer providing apparel and home products to the value-conscious consumer; and Super 8 Motels, Inc., the world’s largest economy motel chain.(PR) See the truck DW will run at IRP on my Truck Series Paint Scemes .(7-31-2003)
