This weekend the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host the Brantley Gilbert Big Machine Brickyard 400 and Brantley says, “It’s pretty nuts, right? We know a fella named Scott Borchetta that can pull some crazy things off. I mean, hell, I’d have been happy with tickets but he put some ideas together and said he was gonna work on some stuff. I figured we’d may be able to play a song or attend a race like we have in the past and he came back with this and I was just blown away.”
Brantley, who is a long-time Earnhardt family fan and his hoping Earnhardt Jr. can take home a win this weekend, is proud to have his name on one of NASCAR’s crown jewels, and it seems his friends and family are pretty impressed too. He laughs and says, “I’ve got friends calling me going, ‘Hey man, your name’s on the race. How does that even work?’ It’s pretty neat and I’m more than stoked.”
Brantley, who just released his brand new single, “The Ones That Like Me,” explains that the Brantley Gilbert Big Machine Brickyard 400 will be extra special for another reason. He says, “My mom’s side of the family’s from Indiana and my (late) grandfather just loved NASCAR and loved the Brickyard and so this one, in my heart, is kind of for him.”
Brantley Gilbert – having own race :30
“Yeah it’s pretty nuts, right? We know a fella named Scott Borchetta that can pull some crazy things off. I mean, hell, I’d have been happy with tickets but he put some ideas together and said he was gonna work on some stuff. I figured we’d may be able to play a song or attend a race like we have in the past and he came back with this and I was just blown away. My mom’s side of the family’s from Indiana and my grandfather just loved NASCAR and loved the Brickyard and so this one, in my heart, is kind of for him.”
Brantley Gilbert – proud to have name on it :10
“To have my name on one of NASCAR’s crown jewels is absolutely unbelievable. We’re just proud to be a part … man, I’m proud to be able to go to the thing, let alone have my name on it.”
Brantley Gilbert – friends are impressed :12
“When it came to fruition I was like, ‘Wow!’ You know, I’ve got friends calling me going, ‘Hey man, your name’s on the race. How does that even work (laugh)?’ It’s pretty neat and I’m more than stoked.”
Brantley Gilbert – Earnhardt :10
“I’ve been a Earnhardt family fan for a long time and I think it’d be cool for him to join his dad as a Brickyard winner, so I’m actually pulling for Earnhardt on this one.”
Brantley Gilbert – Kevin Harvick ride :25
“I like Harvick too, he’s a trip. He took me for a ride around the track and he didn’t take it easy on me, I mean, literally, dude, if you stuck your finger out of the net on that passenger side window the wall would take it off. He told me when we pulled back in the thing, he said, ‘Man,’ he said, ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t talk to you the whole time.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Cause you was screaming.’ It wasn’t like a scared scream. I was like the pig on the Geico commercial.”