Always NASCAR: NASCAR Unleashed Challenge

Homestead-Miami marks the ending of 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and is also marks the crowning of a new points champion. But despite all the competition and head to head battles on track, there is a little more friendly competition going to be taking place off track. A competition that puts NASCAR names on the lines of who's the best, and all the rest.

For the weekend of racing at Homestead-Miami Speedway, NASCAR Unleashed, a new video game released by Activision, has put out a bit of a competition for some of the kids of NASCAR. 5 of some of the drivers children will compete in a bracket-style tournament against each other. They will all be coached by their fathers for the tournament. They will be racing for first place (in the game) and the honor of being crowned the first "Battle of the NASCAR Kids" champion. Each family will donate $5,00 to the charity of their choice, and at the end of the day, the children who participate will hand out a check from Activision for $25,000 to The NASCAR Foundation. The children participating are as follows:

6 year old Faith Yeley, who is the daughter of JJ Yeley

6 year old Sebastian Montoya, son of Juan Pablo Montoya
8 year old Carson Kvapil, Son of Travis Kvapil
11 year old Todd Gilliland, son of David Gilliland
17 year old Ryan Blaney, son of Dave Blaney

Joey Logano, driver of the #20 Joe Gibbs racing Gamestop Toyota in the Nationwide series, will choose two lucky raffle ticket wild card racers from the audience, both of whom he will also coach for the event.

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