NASCAR Drivers Form 24 Hour MTB Team for Big Bear
Bummed by the NASCAR rain delays this weekend? This might cheer you up: NASCAR drivers Andy Lally and Craig Stanton will be competing in 24 Hours of Big Bear (West Virginia) on mountain bikes June 13-14. Rounding out the team are two other experienced racecar (and bike) drivers – Mike Simon and Michael DeNino.
Obviously these guys are competitive and they’re backed by some serious sponsors including Blue Competition Cycles (look for an upcoming review of the Blue XC Carbon by yours truly). Each driver, er rider, will complete 4 laps during the race – no word on whether the drivers’ regular sponsors will get placement on the bikes and/or jerseys 
Although it may sound odd for racecar drivers to be competing on mountain bikes the crossover between the two sports is actually more common than you might think. Last summer we wrote about US Olympic mountain biker Adam Craig and MTB race organizer Mark Corbett, both of whom are into rally car racing. There’s something about a need for speed that both mountain bikers and car drivers can appreciate!
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Tags: 24 hour, nascar, west virginia
May 26th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I wish I could be there to swap paint with them. Can they turn any other direction…besides left?
May 26th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Carl Edwards is a mountain biker too.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/106464037_4a0f652bc9.jpg?v=0
May 26th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Can they turn any other direction…besides left?
They do run road courses a little here and there ya know??hahahahahaha.Paul Tracy the Indy car driver is a mountain biker as well,he race for yeti whos owner,John Parker was a sprint car and midget car driver in the past and of course John Parker and yeti were there at the beginning of the mountain bike movment to help get things kicked off in the mountain bike world we know today.Just thought I would throw this in there even though it’s not nascar stuff.I just know you all would kill me if I didnt.hahahahaha.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Carl Edwards holds a sport class MTB racing license I think. As a fellow Missourian, I am a fan as well. He has ridden the Katy Trail from his home in Columbia Missouri to the Gateway International Raceway when they race the Nation Wide Series Race there as well.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:27 am
yeah, I found out about Carl Edwards in an article in Mountain Bike magazine. Apparently he races quite a bit in the off season, prerides most of the nascar tracks on a road bike and tries to hit a mountain bike ride in the race locations that have them during the nascar season.