Lottery's Replica Pace Car Winner to Receive Prize At Pocono Raceway Tomorrow
19 June 2000
Lottery's Replica Pace Car Winner to Receive Prize At Pocono Raceway Tomorrow
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Rosalie A. Wieland, 74, of Reading, Berks County won the grand prize at the Pocono 500 Winston Cup Race, conducted Sunday at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Monroe County. She didn't win the actual race, but she did win a replica of the Pocono 500 pace car from the Pennsylvania Lottery.Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20, at 11 a.m., she will receive her 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix replica pace car during a formal presentation at the Pocono Raceway. The event will be held at the Winners Circle on the racetrack, through Gate 4. The Lottery's Wilkes-Barre Area Manager Tom Blaskiewicz will present Rosalie the replica pace car.
The Pennsylvania Lottery conducted a second-chance drawing in conjunction with its Pocono Race for the Riches instant ticket game. The $2 ticket offers players two top instant prizes - a $20,000 cash prize and a replicated Pocono Raceway Pace Car. Pocono Race for the Riches offers six chances to win on each ticket. When YOUR SPEED beats THEIR SPEED, you win the prize shown for that lap (game). Get a "car" symbol and win a replicated Pocono Raceway Pace Car instantly!
To enter the second-chance drawing, players mailed in non-winning Pocono Race for the Riches tickets. Each week for five weeks, 100 names were selected from among the entries, for a total of 500 semi-finalists. Each of the 500 received a Pocono Raceway / Pennsylvania Lottery jacket.
From among those 500 semi-finalists, five finalists randomly were selected and each received $5,000 cash, a weekend for them and a guest at the Pocono Raceway and a chance to win a replicated Pocono pace car. Prior to the Pocono 500 race, each finalist drew a key, only one of which would start the replica car. Rosalie Wieland was the lucky finalist who selected the key that started the replica pace car. She also had the opportunity to make a pre-race parade lap around the track in the car.
For players who may have missed the Pocono 500 second-chance drawing, there is another second-chance drawing to be conducted in the same manner.
Each week for the next five weeks, 100 names will be selected from among the entries in the Pocono Race for the Riches instant ticket second-chance drawing, for a total of 500 semi-finalists. Each of the 500 will receive a Pocono Raceway / Pennsylvania Lottery jacket. From among those 500 semi-finalists, five finalists randomly will be selected to attend the Pennsylvania 500 Winston Cup Race, July 21 - 23, 2000, at Pocono Raceway.
The five finalists will each receive $5,000 cash a weekend for them and a guest at the Pocono Raceway and a chance to win a replicated Pocono pace car. Prior to the July 23 race, the finalists each will select a car key. The finalist whose key successfully starts the pace car wins. The winner at the race will have the opportunity to make a pre-race parade lap around the track in the car.
To enter the second-chance drawing, Pennsylvania Lottery players should send three - and only three - non-winning Pocono Race for the Riches instant tickets in a No. 10 envelope to:
Pennsylvania Lottery
POCONO 500 / PENNSYLVANIA 500 second-chance drawing
P.O. Box 999
Middletown, PA 17057-0999
The back of all non-winning tickets must be filled out completely to be valid second-chance entries. The last date for second-chance entries to be received is July 5, 2000.
The Pennsylvania Lottery remains the only state lottery that exclusively targets its proceeds to benefit older citizens. The Lottery began 28 years ago and has contributed $11 billion to program benefits that have expanded to support Property Tax and Rent Rebates, free and reduced-fare transit for older Pennsylvanians, a co-pay prescription drug program (PACE and PACENET) and 52 Area Agencies on Aging which include 650 full and part-time senior centers statewide. Players must be 18 years of age or older.