Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: Dan Lowry - Winner of Crown Royal "Your Name Here" Contest
Command to start engines: Dan Lowry
Honorary Starter/Wave Green Flag: Pamela Evans - Chairman of VA ABC Board
Invocation: Reverend Joe Ellison, Essex Village Community Church
Presentation of Colors: US Army Quartermaster Noncommissioned Officer Academy; Ft. Lee, Va.
Pledge of Allegiance: BG Jesse R. Cross - 50th Quartermaster General and Commander of the US Army Quartermaster Center and School
National Anthem: "The Commandant's Own" Marine Drum and Bugle Corps
Military Flyover: Navy's Blue Angels
Oh WoW!!!