Coca-Cola 600 NEXTEL Cup Series Race weekend at Lowe’s Motor Speedway
May 22, 2007
While a number of cars in this weekend’s Coca-Cola 600 will carry paint designs to honor and raise funds to assist the troops, the paint design of the No. 66 Best Buy Chevrolet will help raise awareness and funds for those closest to the troops – their families.
Best Buy Racing is assisting the families of military personnel receiving medical care at US military and VA medical centers by promoting Fisher House during the Coca-Cola 600 NEXTEL Cup Series race weekend at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
To raise awareness for these “homes away from home, ” Jeff Green’s No. 66 Best Buy Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet will carry a special paint design honoring Fisher House. In addition, Best Buy is helping raise funds for the Fisher House Foundation by allowing customers to donate monies at any Best Buy retail location and online from Memorial weekend through Independence Day.
Members of the military and their families often must travel great distances for specialized medical care. Fisher House Foundation establishes “comfort homes, “ facilities built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers, to provide lodging for families of hospitalized military members.
With 38 locations throughout the US, and six more scheduled to be completed this year, the not-for-profit Fisher House organization has assisted over 110,000 military families since its inception in 1990, saving those families more than $90M in lodging, food and transportation costs.
There is at least one Fisher House at every major military medical center to assist families in need and to ensure that they are provided with the comforts of home in a supportive environment.
In addition to the fundraising efforts, Best Buy is supporting Fisher House through hands-on volunteer opportunities for Best Buy employees at Fisher House locations, and other activities. Several Best Buy vendor partners are making in-kind donations of products needed by current and future Fisher House locations, including laptop computers, television and other electronics. Best Buy employees will volunteer their time to install these products.
Jeff Green, on Fisher House: “Our friends in the military tell us a great way to show support is by helping the people that mean the most to them – their families. Fisher House provides an incredibly meaningful and valuable service to families by allowing military members to be close to a loved one at a very stressful time – during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury. We’re proud to help make more people aware of Fisher House, and to help raise funds to benefit the organization.
“Family is everything to me, so it feels good to be a part of something that will help military members be closer to their families. We all want to support the troops. I think we get so focused on that sometimes, we might not remember the military families like we should. Fisher House does something positive for both groups. ”
One Year Ago At Lowe’s Motor Speedway: In the May Nextel Cup Series event at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, Jeff Green qualified 10th and ran up front for most of the race. Green led 16 laps on his way to a 12th-place finish, the best finish the No. 66 Best Buy Chevrolet team had scored to that point of the year.
Chassis: Haas CNC Racing Chassis No. 12: This chassis has been a workhorse for the Haas CNC Racing team this season. Driver Jeff Green has raced this car at California Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway in 2007, with finishes of 30th, 25th and 26th, respectively.
Green qualified 15th and finished 12th with this chassis in last Saturday’s NEXTEL Open event.
Test: The No. 66 Best Buy Haas CNC Racing team spent Tuesday, May 22, at Nashville (Tenn. ) Superspeedway, testing new setup combinations for several upcoming races on the NEXTEL Cup Series schedule.
