the NASCAR Busch Series takes over the spotlight with an awards banquet scheduled for Friday, Dec. 10 at the Portofino Bay Hotel in Orlando, Fla. The NASCAR Busch Series has celebrated its season at Portofino Bay — included on Cond Nast Traveler magazine’s Gold List of “World’s Best Places to Stay” in 2003-04 — for the past two years. The 750-room hotel, located at the Universal Orlando theme park, is modeled after the Italian seaside village of Portofi#The banquet will be telecast by TNT at 12:00am/et [midnight] on Tuesday, December 14th.(NASCAR PR/TNT site)(4-8/11-28-2004)
