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Inaugural Denny Hamlin 175 at Southside Speedway

Posted by Mike on Friday, April 04, 2008
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Denny HamlinApril 4, 2008 // Richmond, VA – On May 1st, 2008 Southside Speedway will welcome home NASCAR Sprint Cup driver of the #11 FedEx Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and Chesterfield native Denny Hamlin. In creating the Denny Hamlin 175, he will launch something near to his heart…the Denny Hamlin Foundation. Hamlin will bring along some of his friends to compete against Southside Speedway’s elite group of racers, including NASCAR prodigy Joey Logano and two-time Southside Speedway Champion Curtis Markham in a 175 lap late model show down.

This all-star race marks the first fundraiser for the Denny Hamlin Foundation, a newly created charity Hamlin formed to aid in raising awareness and funding for Cystic Fibrosis causes and other 501(c)(3) not for profit corporations. 

“I am really looking forward to returning to Southside Speedway and having the chance to promote and participate in a race that is going to be very competitive and exciting for a lot of my friends from our Friday night short track days, but also a lot of the new fans we have met since I joined Joe Gibbs Racing. I am also very appreciative of Southside Speedway which has graciously agreed to not only co-promote the event, but to donate all profit of the ticket sales to the Denny Hamlin Foundation. I have been able to support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the past several years and I am thrilled to take the next step in ultimately finding a cure for this disease with the launch of my Foundation,” stated Hamlin. (From SouthsideSpeedway.com)


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