For anyone who loves cars, motorsports, or just good family fun, a Friday night under the lights at Raleigh’s NASCAR home track is a welcomed experience, especially for employees of Leith Automotive Group.
LeithCars.com was once again the title sponsor of “NASCAR Night” at Wake County Speedway on August 16th. Internally, the annual promotion is known as “Leith Employee Night” which serves as a time for hundreds of Leith employees and their families to enjoy a night out at the race track.
The partnership with Wake County Speedway goes back to 2018 and expanded from at-the-track signage to hosting the first LeithCars.com race event the following year. For the big 2024 event, a collection of classic NASCAR stock cars and 1980’s muscle cars synonymous with the old Grand National (now NASCAR Cup) series were added to the pre-race entertainment program.
Leith dealerships, Auto Park Chrysler Jeep and Leith Nissan in Cary, N.C. even supplied parade vehicles to lead the field of LeithCars.com Late Model stock cars to the starting line. Several Leith dealerships also contributed prizes like hats, shirts, and service lane coupons to a few lucky fans who wore NASCAR clothing in support of their favorite driver.
At the LeithCars.com booth, race fans could see a quarter-midget race car from the NASCAR Youth League, the type of car that some young racers start out in before moving up to the INEX Bandolero class that races at Wake County.
Whether you’re in the grandstands or taking part in the pre-race festivities, as the title sponsor of the LeithCars.com 155, Leith employees always have a blast, especially when given the chance to make the announcement…”drivers, start…your…ENGINES!”
Adding to the excitement, the first five-hundred families with children entering the gates on this mid-August Friday night were treated to a free, race track themed, LeithCars Coloring & Activity Book. Each page featured every type of car that races at Wake County Speedway, including the Late Model division that Leith sponsors. Each coloring book even came with a LeithCars.com box of crayons, because like we say, “it’s easier here.”
To round-out the NASCAR theme for the evening, LeithCars partnered with Victory Junction to help raise donations in support of the camp founded 25 years ago in memory of Adam Petty, the late son of Kyle Petty.
Victory Junction hosts children with serious illnesses each summer at the camp near Randelman, N.C. To hype-up this years event at Wake County, the camp staff brought their famous “big pink truck” once owned by pop star, Taylor Swift and encouraged fans to take selfies by the truck before the race.
The biggest treat, however, was the edge-of-your-seat racing action that got underway after the fireworks and setting of the late summer sun. The future stars of stock car racing came out and put on a show for the fans and Leith families packed into the grandstands.
Entertaining the crowd with the usual thrills and spills associated with Raleigh’s quarter-mile banked oval, back-to-back track champion and current points leader, Clay Jones, won the first 40-lap Late Model race. Mason Bailey out of Richmond, Virginia, won the second LeithCars Late Model feature of the night in preparation for the CARS Tour race he’s competing in at Wake County the following weekend.
The only question left to answer at the end of this Friday night was, “when are we doing this event again next year?
Photo Credits: Nathan Norcome, Bryan Regan, and Mark Arsen
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