Pocono race officials announced:

Country recording artists Eric Lee Beddingfield and Lucy Angel will perform during the GoBowling.com 400 race weekend at Pocono Raceway. NASCAR legend Richard Petty, on behalf of GoBowling.com, will serve as Grand Marshal for the GoBowling.com 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on August 3, members of Pocono Raceway’s Kids Club will give the honorary command for the Pocono Mountains 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on August 2 and a ModSpace representative will serve as the Grand Marshal for the ModSpace 125 ARCA Racing Series Presented by Menards race on August 1. Eric Lee Beddingfield will perform the National Anthem at Sunday’s 400-mile NASCAR race. Beddingfield was named ‘Artist to Watch’ by Billboard Magazine and ‘Independent Artist of the Year’ in 2012 by Music Row Magazine. His current single ‘I Just Wanna Play’ is available for download on iTunes. Petty will give the command to fire engines prior to the GoBowling.com 400, exactly one day before the 40th anniversary of the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held at Pocono Raceway, a race won by ‘The King’ on August 4, 1974.(Pocono Raceway)(7-31-2014)


News from July 30, 2014