NASCAR, nation music and beer go collectively all too nicely, and one in every of racing’s stars will present as such this weekend in Nashville.
Ross Chastain, a associate with Busch Mild, will characteristic nation artists who’re additionally sponsored by the beer model on his automotive at Nashville Speedway on the Ally 400.
Ashley Cooke, Austin Snell, Breland, Jordan Davis, Matt Stell, Nate Smith, Priscilla Block and Riley Inexperienced will all be featured on the automotive.
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Ross Chastain within the storage space throughout apply for the NASCAR Cup Collection Daytona 500 on Feb. 16, 2024, in Daytona Seashore, Florida. (Sean Gardner/Getty Photos)
“I’m dwelling all the things I ever dreamed of, and I’m getting to mix a variety of passions. Life’s good proper now, I’m attending to do a variety of cool issues, and this automotive is one in every of them,” Chastain advised Fox Information Digital in a current interview.
Chastain joined the Busch Mild group over the offseason in what he described as a “full-circle second.”
“It’s all the things that I ever dreamed it might be. And I didn’t even have this dream,” Chastain started. “Years in the past, I’ve a humorous, loopy story of sitting in a bar again house with some buddies within the low season in December, and the Kevin Harvick/Busch Mild yearly NASCAR calendar had simply arrived, and so they put it up, we have been laughing about it, and so they requested me what it might be like in the event that they ever sponsored me.
Ross Chastain will likely be driving a country-music themed automotive this weekend in Nashville. (Busch Mild)
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“We laughed, and simply this December, we had a full-circle second the place that calendar was me. Received it, put it up, simply sit down there forward of the season, at house, taking a while off, and see that calendar get put up was full-circle. Plenty of work went into getting there, but it surely all paid off.”
The partnership is an ideal match for Chastain, who says he’s been ingesting Busch Mild “lengthy earlier than they sponsored me, and I advised them I’m gonna be ingesting it lengthy after they sponsor me.”
“It simply works out so a lot better that it’s pure for me that I used to be already ingesting it,” he says.
The nation tie, although, can be a little bit of a small-world characteristic.
“That’s the place the concept of Trackhouse was born… Now we have a very shut tie to nation music and the Nashville space. We have been in a position to win there final 12 months, have some artists out… had the chance to fulfill a number of of those artists, hang around with them, share a beer, only a night time off, in order that was actually neat. Getting to point out them my sport and my job and showcase their names, the assist from Busch Mild makes all of it attainable.”
Ross Chastain indicators autographs for followers followers as he walks the crimson carpet previous to the NASCAR Cup Collection Take pleasure in Illinois 300 at WWT Raceway on June 2, 2024, in Madison, Illinois. (Sean Gardner/Getty Photos)
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Chastain at the moment sits in eleventh within the NASCAR Cup Collection rankings – he completed in second in 2022.
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