Before tonight’s truck race at Daytona International Speedway, two students from Philadelphia’s Urban Youth Racing School will be involved in a presentation as part of NASCAR’s diversity program. Leon Simmons is a freshman at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, studying engineering, and Jeremy Ortiz is an eighth-grader at the Ethan Allen School. The presentation is scheduled to air on the Speed Channel at 7:30pm/et. Both will be honorary pit-crew members with Darrell Waltrip Motorsports; Simmons with David Reutimann’s crew and Ortiz with Robert Huffman’s team.(Philadelphia Daily News)(2-18-2005)
