Atlanta Motor Speedway has introduced that ZZ TOP lead singer and guitarist Billy F Gibbons would be the grand marshal for the upcoming Ambetter Well being 400.
As a part of his grand marshal duties, Gibbons will say essentially the most well-known phrases in motorsports, compelling the beginning subject to life when he says, “Drivers, begin your engines. Time to roll…quick and quicker!” Billy will growl as motors rev.
Gibbons will kick off the Ambetter Well being 400, the principle occasion of Atlanta’s spring NASCAR weekend. The weekend options races throughout all three of the sanctioning physique’s nationwide touring collection, together with the Fr8 Racing 208 and Bennett Transportation and Logistics 250.
Tickets and tenting lodging for the February 21-23 Ambetter Well being 400 NASCAR weekend can be found at www.AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com.
Atlanta’s spring NASCAR weekend is headlined by the Ambetter Well being 400 on Sunday, February 23, 2025, with intense, superspeedway pack racing that challenges NASCAR‘s greatest and dazzles followers.
The race weekend additionally options the eleventh 12 months of Atlanta’s same-day NASCAR doubleheader on Saturday, February 22, 2025. The thrills of the Fr8 208 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence race and the Bennett Transportation and Logistics 250 NASCAR Xfinity Sequence race all occur in a single action-packed day.
Together with his signature beard and African headgear, Gibbons is immediately recognizable and greatest often known as the centerpiece of ZZ TOP. His iconic vocals and riffs performed a significant position within the band’s ascent to turning into one of many nation’s high rock bands with famend tracks like “La Grange”, “Tush” and later “Give Me All Your Loving” and “Sharp Dressed Man”. Over the course of greater than 5 many years, greater than 50 million ZZ TOP albums have been offered in addition to a big variety of Billy F Gibbons solo albums. Billy and his ZZ TOP bandmates had been inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame by Keith Richards of THE ROLLING STONES, his pal and admirer.
His solo releases embrace the Afro-Cuban-flavored “Perfectamundo”, the bluesy “The Massive Unhealthy Blues” and the hard-rockin’ “{Hardware}”, all of that are underscored by what he refers to because the “Three T’s”: Tone, Style and Tenacity. Extra not too long ago he is launched “Livin’ It Up Down In Texas” as heard on the soundtrack to the hit collection “Land Man”. It was written by Gibbons with Billy Bob Thornton, the collection’ star, and Nashville singer/composer and “Land Man” actor Mark Collie.
