CUP: Drivers Dream Big Dreams

Sprint Cup

CUP: Drivers Dream Big Dreams

Tony Stewart has another big night in store...

Tom Jensen | Posted June 03, 2010 Charlotte, NC

Tony Stewart hosts the annual Prelude to the Dream race. (Photo: Getty Images)

While the NASCAR Sprint Cup boys will roll on Sunday at Pocono Raceway, already a select few are looking ahead to next week, when they will get down and dirty in the middle of nowhere for a great cause.

Next Wednesday, those drivers will abandon the big superspeedways and head to the most famous half-mile dirt track in the world, the Tony Stewart-owned Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

The purpose of their journey is to go raise a little hell, old-school, dirt-track-style, and raise a lot of money to help out four children’s hospitals.

The occasion will be The Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream dirt late model race, which will be broadcast live to the entire nation on HBO Pay-Per-View with net proceeds from the telecast supporting four of the nation’s top children’s hospitals:

• Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis: www.RileyChildrensHospital.com

• Cincinnati Children’s: www.CincinnatiChildrens.org

• Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C.: www.LevineChildrensHospital.org

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.: www.StJude.org

Competing in the event will be Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte and Bill Elliott, who collectively have 13 Sprint Cups. Also in the field are the Gillette Young Guns drivers Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Joey Logano. Action sports superstar Travis Pastrana and former motocross champion turned NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Ricky Carmichael will also participate.

Watch Prelude to the Dream Countdown Show, a one-hour live pre-race special from Eldora Speedway on June 9 at 6 pm ET on SPEED.

The 24 racers will be split in four teams:

• Team Riley: Bowyer (captain), Ryan Newman, Gordon, A.J. Allmendinger, Kenny Wallace and Ron Capps.

• Team Cincinnati: Kahne (captain), Logano, Stewart, Labonte, Elliott and Cruz Pedregon.

• Team Levine: Busch (captain), Johnson, Kenseth, David Reutimann, Dave Blaney, Marcos Ambrose and Pastrana.

• Team St. Jude: Hamlin (captain), Edwards, Ken Schrader, Aric Almirola, Carmichael and Ray Evernham.

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