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Fueled by his passion for motorsports, NASCAR enthusiast and Mega Millions Lottery winner, Joe Denette, formed Joe Denette Motorsports (JDM). JDM, a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) team, made its NASCAR debut in the 2011 season-opener at Daytona International Speedway.

Double Duty at Daytona… The NextEra Energy Resources 250 will actually be Cale Gale’s second race at Daytona International Speedway this week. Gale wheeled the No. 6 Rheem Chevrolet in the ARCA Racing Series event on Saturday afternoon where he brought home a 13th-place finish.

Stenhouse, Jr. on racing at Daytona International Speedway: “We’re ready for another championship. Our Nationwide Series season starts this week and I think we have worked on a few things that we needed to work on during the off-season and want to start out strong this year."

The No. 30 Qualcomm Autotrac Chevrolet team will bring chassis TMS-016 to the season opener at Daytona International Speedway. TMS-016 was used last year by Ricky Carmichael at Daytona and Talladega Superspeedway events where he finished eighth and fourth respectively.

Jason White on Daytona: “Daytona is one of my favorite race tracks. Much like a lot of the other drivers, growing up I dreamt about racing at Daytona and to be able to do it year after year never gets old. Everything about Daytona is huge and it means so much to run good there. "

Mark Martin begins his 30th season in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing on Sunday in the 54th running of the Daytona 500. Like many of the 180,000 fans who will attend NASCAR’s premier event or the 13 million television viewers watching at home, Martin grew up a fan of “The Great American Race.”

Jason Bowles and the American Majority Racing No. 81 Dodge Challenger will make their racing debut together this weekend in the DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway.

Allgaier Ready for Title Hunt in 2012 - After a successful 2011, where he finished third in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) point standings, Justin Allgaier returns to "The World Center of Speed" with a renewed sense of pride and ready to make a run at the 2012 NNS Championship.