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FYI WIRZ: Labor Day Weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway gets easy down payment

FYI WIRZ: Labor Day Weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway gets easy down payment

Atlanta Motor Speedway has turned its lone NASCAR race into a popular weekend destination for avid fans by making the days of the Labor Day celebration long, happy and affordable.

Ample camping grounds surround the 1.5-mile racetrack with reasonable fees and now ticket deals announced recently go on sale February 20.

Courtesy of Atlanta Motor Speedway:

For only $20 down, fans can reserve seats for the AdvoCare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekend when tickets for the biggest Labor Day party in the USA go on sale Monday, February 20 at 9:00 AM. Tickets start at just $39 and AMS is offering a number of money-saving ticket specials for 2012.

Fans can watch Danica Patrick take on Atlanta’s high banks for the first time with the “Danica Deal.” The package provides a Saturday Nationwide Series general admission ticket and a lower Earnhardt Grandstand ticket for the AdvoCare 500 for only $99.

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The Start/Finish Package includes an upper Champions Grandstand ticket for Saturday’s Nationwide Series race and the AdvoCare 500 on Sunday, plus a Sunday pit pass for only $149, representing a savings of $111.

Two Sunday tickets in the lower Petty or lower Winners Grandstands can be purchased for $99. Sunday student tickets in the Elliott Grandstand start at only $19. And once again, kids 12 and under are free on Friday and Saturday with a paid adult in the general admission seating areas.

Details available on www.atlantamotorspeedway.com

Six major NASCAR tracks are within a day's drive of Tampa. Great destinations justify journeys.

Here the NASCAR venue is considered local if tracks are within a 10 hour drive from Tampa—Daytona International Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Talladega Superspeedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

FYI WIRZ is the select presentation of motorsports topics by Dwight Drum at Racetake.com. Unless otherwise noted, all quotes were obtained from official release materials provided by sanctions, teams or track representatives.

, Tampa Motorsports Examiner

Dwight, a member of the National Motorsports Press Association, has served as a photojournalist and writer with Stripbike.com since 1998. He is also the creator of Zoomster.com and Racetake.com. He has interviewed almost every big name in both NHRA and NASCAR. He also has experience covering the...

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