NASCAR Legends and Country Music Stars join talents each year in Nashville for the Annual Mark Collie Celebrity Race for Diabetes Cure. This year's event takes place October 26 & 27, 1999.

Hosted by Country Music Stars, Mark Collie and Loretta Lynn, who serves as celebrity spokesperson, last year’s benefit took place in Nashville on October 6^th and 7^th. For years, Mark Collie, a Type I, Insulin dependant diabetic has brought top country music artists and NASCAR drivers together to raise money for diabetes research.

In last year's event, NASCAR Drivers Bobby Hamilton, Sterling Marlin got together with NASCAR legends Coo Coo Marlin, Tiger Tom Pistone and Dick Brooks, and challenged country music stars Brooks and Dunn, Faith Hill, Pam Tillis and Matthew and Gunnar Nelson in a series of legend car heat races. Together more than forty fan favorites participated in the races, including Kippi Brannon, Faith Hill,  Tim McGraw and Olympic Gold medallist, Bart Conner.

Festivities started with a celebrity auction and show at the Wild Horse Saloon. Billy Standridge’s Winston Cup Show Car sponsored by Diabetes Home Care was on display at the entrance. Inside, guests were entertained by race participants including The Oak Ridge Boys, Loretta Lynn, Anita Cochran, The Nelsons, T. Graham Brown, and John Anderson. Legend car races took place at the Nashville Speedway the next evening featuring all the stars. To find out who was this year’s champion, visit our photo gallery.

Through the success of these events, the Mark Collie Foundation has raised over two million dollars, providing grants to various diabetic research organizations with the principal recipient being Vanderbilt University Research Center.

Diabetes Home Care is proud to be a corporate sponsor of the Mark Collie Celebrity Race, and associate sponsor for Winston Cup driver Billy Standridge

The Celebrity Race will run Legends cars: 5/8-scale, 125hp replicas modeled after the great modifieds driven by the sport's earliest stars during the formative years of NASCAR. Celebrities will compete in four qualifying 8-lap heats and a 15-lap feature on the speedway's 3/8 mile oval. Nascar Legends will compete in a 15-lap shootout dubbed
"Legends Racing Legends"

1998 Participants

Kippi Brannon, Kix Brooks, Gary Chapman, Ronnie Dunn, Anita Cochran, Mark Collie, Irlene Mandrell, Terry McBride, David Lee Murphy, Richochet, Larry Stewart, Lisa Stewart, Aaron Tippin, Neil Trasher, Kelly Shiver, Faith Hill, Mike Alexander, Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, Dick Brooks, Richard Childress, Red Farmer, Harry Gant, Steadman, Sterling and Coo Coo Marlin, Bobby Hamliton & Bobby Hamilton, Jr..

Grand Marshal:                       Bill Elliott

Celebrity Spokesperson:      Loretta Lynn

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