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MWR to run gold wheels in Daytona 500

Quote selected text Published February 16th, 2008 in NASCAR News

Dale Jarrett & Michael Waltrip#55-Michael Waltrip and his three Sprint Cup Series, #44-Dale Jarrett and #00-David Reutimann teams will pay tribute to the golden anniversary of the Daytona 500 on Sunday by starting the 50th running of The Great American Race sporting specially-designed gold wheels.

Following the 200-lap event, the wheels will be autographed and sold to raise money for charities supported by the France family. The Waltrip teams will run the gold wheels only for the start of the race, moving back to their traditional chrome wheels after the first round of pit stops.

[MWR PR]

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  1. 1 Fisha695 Registered User Feb 16th, 2008 at 12:13 pm Quote

    Just the other week NASCAR told Hendrick Motorsports that they could not run Gold wheels in the 500, but now they are letting MWR run them….??????

  2. 2 kk Feb 16th, 2008 at 4:33 pm Quote

    I am deafened by that sucking sound coming from Mikey Waltrips lips!!!

    By the way does anyone know what that white thing is Toyota was giving away
    in the grab bags today at the race?

  3. 3 Jeff Feb 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm Quote

    BLING!

  4. 4 SUZI88 Feb 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pm Quote

    I THINK THAT MIKEY, D.J. AND DAVID HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA TO RUN THE
    GOLD RIMS. THEY WILL MAKE A GOOD BIDDING ITEM FOR SOMEONE THAT
    really gets into mikey’s team. maybe i will win them all. GO MIKEY, D.J. AND DAVID.
    YOU ARE ALL GREAT.

  5. 5 George Thompson Registered User Feb 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pm Quote

    MWR sucks and will always suck

  6. 6 Jeff Feb 17th, 2008 at 6:48 am Quote

    gold wheels?!?. why not have air-ride on the cars as well haha. go figure

  7. 7 sushstewart20 Registered User Feb 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am Quote

    lift the cars…put hydraulics on them..have the gold wheels be spinning..have black music blasting from inside..and mikey’s wearing a backwards baseball hat, holding up a peace sign and grilling everybody with gold teeth.

    GIVE ME A BREAK, lol

  8. 8 Fisha695 Registered User Feb 17th, 2008 at 10:22 am Quote

    It’s Gold Powder coated wheels to celebrate the Golden anniversary of the race. The same wheels that HMS and some other teams were planning on running and might end up running, until the first pit stop.

  9. 9 DawnNolde Feb 17th, 2008 at 1:52 pm Quote

    Where will they be auctioning/selling the wheels?

  10. 10 Fisha695 Registered User Feb 17th, 2008 at 2:22 pm Quote

    IDK, but I’m sure the info will be up on http://www.michaelwaltrip.com/

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