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FYI WIRZ: NASCAR gets Three Stooges to deliver green flag for the Daytona 500

The Three Stooges entertained Americans decades ago when the movie industry was young, energetic and the about only show in town--many towns. As television didn’t arrive as a popular force until the mid-1950’s and early-1960’s, Hollywood was the traditional king for video shows.

The original Three Stooges act included three brothers who started in Vaudeville and took farce and slapstick comedy on the big screen. The new Three Stooges will have the advantage of hi-definition technology and even more decades of skills that have evolved to trained technicians.

Courtesy of Daytona International Speedway:

As Grand Marshals, co-stars from the new Three Stooges movie Jane Lynch and Kate Upton will deliver the four most famous words in motorsports – “Drivers, start your engines.”

Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Will Sasso -- starring as Larry, Moe & Curly – in the all new The Three Stooges movie from Twentieth Century Fox, will start the action by delivering the green flag at the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s most prestigious race, on Sunday, February 26th (FOX, 1 p.m. ET).

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“We look forward to Jane and Kate’s participation in the pre-race ceremonies, adding to the star power of NASCAR’s biggest and richest race of the year,” Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III said. “Also, the thousands of race fans in attendance and the millions more watching on FOX Sports are eagerly waiting to experience ‘Stoogemania,’ when The Three Stooges deliver the green flag”

In The Three Stooges, which hits theaters everywhere April 13, 2012, newborns Larry, Moe and Curly are left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns. The boys grow up finger-poking, nyuk-nyuk-nyuking and woo-woo-wooing their way to uncharted levels of knuckleheaded misadventure. Out to save their childhood home, only The Three Stooges could become embroiled in an oddball murder plot…while stumbling into starring in a phenomenally successful TV reality show.

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. Information and quotes derived from motorsports industry press releases.

, 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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