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2012 Prelude to the Dream ordering information

Taking Orders for Eighth Annual Prelude To The Dream

Fans Can Order All-Star Event on Pay-Per-View Beginning Today!

ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 1, 2012) – If you can’t make the drive to Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, on Wednesday, June 6 to see the eighth annual Prelude To The Dream in person, don’t worry. Beginning today, race fans across the nation will have their first opportunity to order the charity all-star race on pay-per-view.

The event will feature stars from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, the IZOD IndyCar Series, the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series and the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series. All will join two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart in piloting 2,300-pound dirt Late Model stock cars capable of putting out more than 800 horsepower around Eldora’s half-mile oval.

HBO Pay-Per-View® will present the event LIVE in high-definition to the entire nation. Net proceeds from the telecast will support Feed The Children, a U.S.-based charity that domestically has helped more than 365,000 families since 2009 through its Americans Feeding Americans Caravan.

The 2012 edition of the Prelude To The Dream includes hot laps, qualifying, heat races and a 40-lap feature with double-file “shootout style” restarts. It is One Perfect Night.

Tony Kanaan of the IZOD IndyCar Series will again compete against Danica Patrick, who in 2012 has made the full transition from IndyCar to NASCAR. They’ll rub fenders with straight-linersRon Capps and Cruz Pedregon of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. Dirt regulars Steve Kinser and Donny Schatz, who have collectively won 24 World of Outlaws championships, will race for the first time in dirt Late Models. All will join NASCAR stars such as Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, Aric Almirola and many others, including a band of brothers: the Busch brothers – Kurt and Kyle – and the Dillon brothers – Austin and Ty.

For the top-10 finishers in the Prelude To The Dream, Feed The Children will send a food truck to each driver’s hometown or city of their choice.

HOW TO ORDER:

· The live, commercial-free broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. PDT) with an immediate replay following.

· All that is necessary to order the event is a digital cable box or satellite service. You do not need HBO to order.
· The suggested retail price is $24.95. Ordering information and up-to-the minute racing information is available at either www.PreludeToTheDream.org or www.HBO.com.

· Updates can also be found on Twitter at @PreludetoDream and follow the hashtag #OnePerfectNight, or become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PreludetoDream.

· If you have Cable, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-verse, DIRECTV or DISH, fans can order the Prelude To The Dream beginning today.
· The following are step-by-step instructions to help place an order for the Prelude To The Dream on Pay-Per-View:

Ø Cable, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS Customers: All that is necessary to order the event is a digital cable box on your TV. If you are not sure about the kind of box you have, contact your cable company and ask if you have a digital cable box that gets Pay-Per-View (PPV). Once you know you have a digital cable box, scroll through the Pay-Per-View channels on your electronic program guide for Wednesday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET, and look for “Auto Racing: Prelude to the Dream.” Once you see the entry, click it and follow the on-screen instructions to order. If your cable system does not accept orders from your remote control, contact a customer service representative either the day before or the day of the race. Make sure you tell the representative that you are looking to order “Auto Racing: Prelude to the Dream.” Some cable systems have a short window available to order Pay-Per-View events. The more specific you are with the customer service representative, the easier it will be to place your order.

Ø DIRECTV Customers: All DIRECTV customers can order now. You can find the event on Channel 123 HD or Channel 124. Go to the programming guide for those channels for Wednesday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET, and look for “Prelude to the Dream.” Once you see the entry, click the event and follow the on-screen instructions to order. Or you can order online atdirectv.com/events or text EVENT to 223322. Standard data and messaging rates may apply in accordance with your wireless carrier.

Ø DISH Network Customers: All DISH Network customers can order the event now by going to Channel 473 or Channel 474 HD. Follow the on-screen instructions to order. On Wednesday, June 6, the event will be shown on Channel 455 or Channel 468 HD.

· If any problems are encountered during ordering, contact a customer service representative anytime on Wednesday, June 6 to make sure the order is processed and the race can be viewed. Once it is ordered, sit back and enjoy the ride.

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Comment by David Williams on June 8, 2012 at 10:03pm: On the IndyCar website is a story about the Prelude To The Dream race. Below is the sole mention of Danica:

“As usual, we received great hospitality from Tony and everybody there,” said Kanaan, who was one spot behind Stewart in his qualifying heat (Danica Patrick crashed in the heat). “It was for a good cause. We were doing much better this year. It’s too bad we got caught up in someone else’s wreck, but overall it was fun.”

One mention, in a brief parenthesis, noting that she crashed in a heat. The last sentence of the previous paragraph is “Only 15 of the 26 starter[s] were running at the finish.” Nowhere is there any indication that Danica was one of those 15 still racing at the end.

Looks like sour grapes to me.

Comment by Becky on June 7, 2012 at 10:05am: Here is a clip package put together by Eldora Speedway of the event...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6tKYjn-HQ&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Daniel on June 7, 2012 at 6:56am: She did great for her first dirt experience esp considering the competition. In a few more years she'll be able to drift anything. :-D

Everyone looked like they were really having a good time too including her which is how it should be.

Comment by Damon on June 7, 2012 at 3:35am: More Danica stuff from the Prelude: http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayto...

Comment by Becky on June 7, 2012 at 1:03am: Yep, lots of crashes especially early... The two best cars Kasey Kahne and Clint Bowyer were knocked out due to crashes. Bowyer fell out after being pushed into the wall on a Kasey Kahne slide job, followed a lap or so later by another push into the wall by a Kyle Bush after which he ran a couple of laps and then retired. Kasey Kahne was leading (dominating) when he squarely hit Bobby Labonte who spun on his own and was just sitting in the corner it was a big enough crash it knocked the wheel off of Kasey's car.

Bobby Labonte spun about three times between hot laps, qualifying, and the main race. I think JJ Yeley also went around on his own during the main causing one of the early cautions. TK had to retire due to damage he sustained in the early crashes (I didn't see how he got his damage).

So while Danica's times weren't very competitive she did keep her car under control and didn't impact the race... Danica will get grief about finishing laps down but she ran the entire race and kept the car under her which is what she needed to do to get experience.

They asked her if she would be back and she was a bit hesitant but conceded it was probably good for her and it was for a great cause. I think she'll be back but I bet she tests or runs some more dirt races somewhere before next year's race.

Comment by DanicaPowerX on June 7, 2012 at 12:25am: I heard it was a wreckfest...

Comment by Becky on June 6, 2012 at 11:34pm: Danica finishes in 15th out of 26 at the Prelude to the Dream (last car running)... I give her big props for getting out there and doing something that is outside of her comfort zone especially in front of the world.

She hit the wall in her heat race on the last lap so that required some repairs to her car but other than a spin without contact in the main (when she was trying to avoid an accident) she ran a clean race and got some experience. She was pretty well off the pace but I think after banging the car up in the heat race and starting in the back she was content to simply get some experience rather than push it...especially after several crashes in the early laps of the main.

The hater media of course made a mountain out of the fact she declined an interview after hitting the wall in the heat race (how dare she decline an interview in a charity race)... Of course there were crickets from them not 20 minutes later when she was interviewed as part of a presentation of $25,000 to Feed the Children from GoDaddy (and .org).