Win the 2011 Mustang GT Pace Car For Bristol Motor Speedway’s 50th Anniversary

As part of the storied NASCAR track’s 50^th Anniversary, you have a chance to get your hands on the 2011 Ford Mustang 5.0 GT Pace Car being used at Bristol Motor Speedway. Unlike the recent limited edition 2011 Indy 500 Camaro Pace Cars you can find at your local Chevrolet dealerships, you won’t be able to buy a limited edition of the Mustang pace car. The only way to get one is to win it. Ford Racing and Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS) are giving away the Official 2011 Mustang GT pace Car to one lucky winner right before the Food City 250 this August.

In Celebrating of the speedway’s Golden Anniversary the one-off Mustang will be given a custom two-tone black-on-gold paint scheme, black Ford Racing wheels, and a catback exhaust kit. Ford values the car at $44,000, nearly $15,000 more than the price of a stock GT. Fans can register in person for the Bristol Golden Giveaway Sweepstakes, at the Track’s 50th Anniversary Fan Day on July 30, 2011, or by entering online at www.bms50.com.

Three finalists will be awarded a trip to the Irwin Tools Night Race weekend in August. The three will each be given a key, one of which will start the car and be crowned the winner. The winner is also set to receive a pallet of Scotts Lawn Care products which we assume will be loaded in the trunk of the Mustang reduce wheel hop.

Bristol opened its doors in 1961, after Larry Carrier, Carl Moore, and R.G. Pope built the track on the remnants of a small dairy farm 10 miles northeast of the originally purposed location, Piney Flats, Tennessee. The entire layout for BMS covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The cost of the land, as well as construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns, which were banked at 22 degrees. Seating capacity for the very first NASCAR race at BMS, held on July 30, 1961, was 18,000. Prior to this race the speedway hosted weekly races.

When Carrier sold the speedway in 1996 for $26 million, to Bruton Smith and Speedway Motorsports, Inc., the bank turns were 36 degrees and seating capacity was nearly71,000. Smith and Speedway Motors have poured more than $50 million into expanding and improving the facility to turn it into the modern facility we now today. The World’s Fastest Half Mile now seats 155,000 fans and play host to two stops on NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series.

Source: (BMS)

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