Race vehicles with a combined 27,000 horsepower will participate today in the annual Parade of Power, scheduled for noon on Bruton Smith Boulevard.
Featured in the parade will be the various vehicles scheduled to participate in racing this fall at the speedway -- dragsters, dirt track cars, and race cars from both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup series with NASCAR. The parade will end at the speedway with a news conference and fan forum. The first 100 fans arriving at the speedway will be invited to an autograph session afterward.
Among drivers participating will be David Ragan, who won last fall's Sprint Cup race in Charlotte; and Trevor Bayne, winner of this year's Daytona 500.
Vehicles scheduled to take part today include: Sprint Cup; Nationwide Series; a Whelen Southern Modified tour car; a World of Outlaws sprint car; a monster truck; an NHRA Top Fuel dragster; an NHRA Funny Car; the speedway's Toyota Camry pace cars; and a Rosenbauer fire engine.
