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SC lottery player bound for NASCAR Championship Weekend and $1 MILLION drawing

11/4/2024 8:07:36 AM

Columbia, SC (November 4, 2024) – A Midlands man is one of four lottery players headed to NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway®, Nov. 8-10, for a chance at $1 MILLION!

Michael Wells of Columbia heard his name called during yesterday’s Xfinity 500 race at Martinsville Speedway. The other three finalists announced were from Delaware, Louisiana and North Carolina.

One of them will win $1 million in a drawing broadcast live on NBC during pre-race coverage of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race™ on Sunday, Nov. 10 starting at 2 p.m. ET.

“I would love to win the $1 million and take a photo with the winner of the race,” Wells told lottery officials. “If it happens, I’m going to pay off my house and retire.”

Wells says he's been a faithful Powerball player for the last 20 years. He entered the Powerball Playoff Promotion back in the spring and survived a series of elimination drawings that narrowed 16 national winners down to the final four vying for the $1 million prize in Phoenix, AZ.

Players can follow the NASCAR Powerball Playoff on Facebook, Instagram, and online at Powerball.com.

NASCAR® is a registered trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. Copyright ©2024 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. All Rights Reserved. NASCAR®, LLC is not a sponsor of this promotion.

About Powerball

Powerball® holds the current world record for largest national lottery jackpot at $2.04 billion. Since its first drawing in 1992, the game has helped generate more than $32 billion for good causes supported by U.S. lotteries. More than half of all proceeds from the sale of a Powerball ticket remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was sold. Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Powerball drawings are also live streamed on Powerball.com.

About NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 14 of the nation’s major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR sanctions races in three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series™), four international series (NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race, NASCAR Canada Series, NASCAR Mexico Series, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour) and a local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in five cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races annually in 11 countries and more than 30 U.S. states.

For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X and Snapchat.

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