{"id":4426,"date":"2020-05-12T05:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T05:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leithcars.com\/blogs\/1421\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2020-05-12T05:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T05:36:49","slug":"leithcars-com-bringing-local-racers-to-iracing-nascar-virtual-champ-to-race-in-leith-direct-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"LeithCars.com Bringing Local Racers to iRacing – NASCAR Pro Invitational Series Champ to Race in Leith Direct 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LeithCars.com\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

May 12, 2020, 04:36 ET<\/p>\n

RALEIGH, N.C.<\/span>,\u00a0May 12, 2020<\/span>\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0LeithCars.com<\/strong> is sponsoring a virtual race through the popular iRacing platform Tuesday night,\u00a0May 12th<\/span>\u00a0at\u00a07:45 pm EDT<\/span>\u00a0that will bring together real, local short-track drivers and track announcers. Drivers will compete on a virtual Southern National Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n

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NASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series Champ Timmy Hill to Compete in Virtual Leith Direct 100.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When the green flag drops just before\u00a08 pm Tuesday<\/span>\u00a0on the “LeithCars.com Leith Direct 100” you’ll be able to watch all the virtual racing action “live” on MaxSpeedTV.com’s YouTube channel. The race will feature a virtually created Southern National racetrack, a four-tenths mile oval located near\u00a0Lucama, North Carolina<\/span>. This local iRacing event will feature current or former race car drivers of both SNMP, and sister racetrack, Wake County Speedway (Garner, N.C.<\/span>).<\/p>\n

In addition to the local area race talent, a very special guest will be competing for the first-ever Leith Direct 100 virtual trophy Tuesday night, NASCAR driver\u00a0Timmy Hill<\/span>, who just won the “E-NASCAR” Pro Invitational Series Championship on Saturday by finishing 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0at a virtual North Wilkesboro Speedway.<\/p>\n

“I am excited to race in the Leith Direct 100 iRacing event at Southern National,” said\u00a0Timmy Hill<\/span>, driver of the real LeithCars.com number 66 Toyota at the upcoming Charlotte ROVAL in October. “It’s going to be neat driving our special Leith Cars #woodywagon race car Tuesday night.” \u2013 You’ll have to watch the race live on YouTube to see what Timmy is referring to. Let’s just say, his car won’t look like his usual blue and white Leith Cars livery. He’ll also be racing the number “56” which he normally runs on his NASCAR Truck Series race vehicle.<\/p>\n

The LeithCars.com Leith Direct 100 will also feature real track announcers from Southern National and WCS to add to the virtual excitement.<\/p>\n

LeithCars.com is one of the largest automotive groups in\u00a0North Carolina<\/span>. A family business created in\u00a0Raleigh<\/span>, Leith Cars has been serving the Triangle community for over 50 years, incorporating over 1,900 North Carolinians into its family. The number one place to buy vehicles in the\u00a0Raleigh<\/span>\u00a0metro area for three years running, according to a Marshall Marketing Survey, the auto dealer has 39 franchise locations throughout the state. For more information, visit\u00a0www.leithcars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Contact:\u00a0
Mark Arsen<\/span>
Leith Marketing
(919) 832-3232
marsen@leithmarketingdept.com<\/a><\/p>\n

SOURCE LeithCars.com<\/p>\n

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NEWS PROVIDED BY LeithCars.com\u00a0 May 12, 2020, 04:36 ET RALEIGH, N.C.,\u00a0May 12, 2020\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0LeithCars.com is sponsoring a virtual race through the popular iRacing platform Tuesday night,\u00a0May 12th\u00a0at\u00a07:45 pm EDT\u00a0that will bring together real, local short-track drivers and track announcers. Drivers will compete on a virtual Southern National Motorsports Park.   When the green flag drops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,14,15,3,22,23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-cars","category-events","category-iracing","category-motorsports","category-nascar-automotive","category-news","category-zero-to-60"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}