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ZZ TOP FRONT MAN BILLY GIBBONS ANNOUNCED AS AMBETTER HEALTH 400 GRAND MARSHAL
HAMPTON, Ga. (Feb. 10, 2025) – Atlanta Motor Speedway announced today
ZZ Top lead singer and guitarist Billy F Gibbons will be the grand
marshal for the upcoming Ambetter Health 400.
As part of his grand marshal duties, Gibbons will say the most famous
words in motorsports, compelling the starting field to life when he
says, “Drivers, start your engines.”
“Time to roll…fast and faster!” Billy F Gibbons will growl as
motors rev.
With his signature beard and African headgear, Billy F Gibbons is
instantly recognizable and best known as the centerpiece of ZZ Top. His
iconic vocals and riffs played a major role in the band’s ascent to
becoming one of the country’s top rock bands with renowned tracks like
“La Grange”, “Tush”, and later “Give Me All Your Loving” and
“Sharp Dressed Man”. Over the course of more than five decades more
than 50 million ZZ Top albums have been sold as well as a significant
number of Billy F Gibbons solo albums. Billy and his ZZ Top bandmates
were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Keith Richards of
the Rolling Stones, his friend and admirer.
His solo releases include the Afro-Cuban flavored “Perfectamundo”, the
bluesy, “The Big Bad Blues”, and the hard rockin, “Hardware” all
of which are underscored by what he refers to as the “Three T’s”:
Tone, Taste and Tenacity. More recently he’s released “Livin’ It
Up Down In Texas” as heard on the soundtrack to the hit series Land
Man. It was written by Gibbons also with Billy Bob Thornton, the series
star, and Nashville singer/composer and Land Man actor Mark Collie.
Gibbons will kick off the Ambetter Health 400, the main event of
Atlanta’s spring NASCAR weekend. The weekend features races across all
three of the sanctioning body’s national touring series, including the
Fr8 Racing 208 and Bennett Transportation and Logistics 250.
Tickets and camping accommodations for the Feb. 21-23 Ambetter Health
400 NASCAR weekend are available at www.AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com [2].
About the Ambetter Health 400 weekend:
Atlanta’s spring NASCAR weekend is headlined by the Ambetter Health
400 on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, with intense, superspeedway pack racing
that challenges NASCAR’s best and dazzles fans.
The race weekend also features the 11th year of Atlanta’s same day
NASCAR doubleheader on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. The thrills of the Fr8
208 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race and the Bennett Transportation
and Logistics 250 NASCAR Xfinity Series race all happen in one
action-packed day.
More information on the Feb. 21-23, 2025, Ambetter Health 400 weekend
and ticket availability can be found online at AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com.
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