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FOX Company CEO Lachlan Murdoch named Daytona 500 starter

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The Daytona 500 goes to be a Fox household affair this 12 months.

The Daytona 500 is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 20.
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The Nice American Race will probably be broadcast on Fox on Sunday, Feb. 20, and have some acquainted faces within the pre-race occasions.

Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer and Fox Sports activities character Charles Woodson will function Grand Marshall for the proceedings and is charged for giving the “gents, begin your engines” command after nation singer Hint Adkins sings the nationwide anthem.

Charles Woodson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021.

Charles Woodson was inducted into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame in 2021.
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Woodson joins an inventory of prestigious Grand Marshals that features NASCAR legends Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Junior Johnson, Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas and Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush.

FOX Company Government Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch will then take his place on the flag stand the place he’ll function honorary starter of the sixty fourth operating of the race in entrance of a totally sold-out venue. 

Fox will even be on the observe with the Fox Nation-sponsored Spire Motorsports Chevrolet pushed by Landon Cassill.

Protection of the Daytona 500 begins at 1 p.m. ET on Fox with NASCAR RaceDay adopted by the beginning of the race at 2:30 p.m. ET. Viewers may tune into Fox Nation’s 4-part particular sequence “Street to Daytona,” and comply with Landon Cassills’ quest to win the cup within the Spire Motorsports Fox Nation-sponsored automotive, accessible now.

Supply: Fox Information