NASCAR BGN: Casey Atwood event preview, Dover, Delaware
21 September 2000
Posted By Terry
Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
* Casey Atwood is currently ninth in the NASCAR Busch Series point
standings, 166 points behind eighth position.
* Antioch, Tennessee resident Casey Atwood is defending champion of the MBNA.com 200 at Dover Downs International Speedway. It marks the 20-year-old driver of the No. 27 Castrol GTX Chevrolet Monte Carlo's last win in the NASCAR Busch Series.
CASEY ATWOOD WANTS HIS MTV: For the remainder of the 2000 NASCAR Busch Series season Casey Atwood, driver of the No. 27 Castrol GTX Chevrolet Monte Carlo, will be shadowed by a film crew from MTV. The crew is filming a documentary entitled MTV True Life: I am a race car driver. It focuses on the trials and tribulations of Atwood and NASCAR Winston Cup Series drive Dale Earnhardt Jr. both on the track and off.
The crew will start filming at Dover Downs International Speedway this weekend and conclude at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in November. The scheduled air date is the week of February 11, 2001.
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