Mark Day to drive Memphis Busch race for Kevin Harvick Inc.
 

By Terrell Davis
Winning the NASCAR Late Model Championship at the historic Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville has apparently earned Mark Day a trip to Memphis Motorsports Park to race in the Sam’s Town 250.
Day confirmed he has been contacted by Kevin Harvick’s Busch race team about driving Harvick’s number 33 Busch racecar in Memphis on October 28th. The deal has come from Nashville based Dollar General Stores Operation Big Chance where the driver with the most points in either the Late Model or SuperTruck division at Music City Motorplex got an opportunity to drive one of Harvick’s Craftsman Trucks at a Martinsville race next season.
“I was asked if I would be interested in racing in the Memphis Busch race,” Day said. “I told them I’d be more interested in that than driving in the Truck race at Martinsville, but they indicated it may be possible for me to do both.”
Day said he was waiting to hear back from Harvick’s people as to when he would go to the race shop in North Carolina to be fitted for a seat.
Speculation from Day was that he would fly to North Carolina the first week of October.
“At this point I haven’t signed anything yet, but I think it looks pretty good,” he said.
David Underwood from Music City Motorplex said everyone at the track was excited about the deal and the notoriety that both Day and the Motorplex could receive.
“This is really great,” Underwood said. “For someone to get this kind of opportunity from racing at Music City Motorplex proves that there continues to be opportunities for drivers to move to the upper divisions of NASCAR by racing at the Fairgrounds in Nashville.”