Charlotte Motor Speedway

Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman and special guests NASCAR Xfinity series race car driver for Sam Hunt Racing Kaz Grala, WBT afternoon show host Brett Winterble, Executive Vice President/General Manager at Charlotte Motor Speedway Greg Walter, Director of Publicity and Communications at Charlotte Motor Speedway Jonathan Coleman, and Senior Vice President of Communications - Speedway Motorsports / Charlotte Motor Speedway Scott Cooper.

Good Morning BT with special guests Weather Channel Meteorologist Ray Stagich, WBT afternoon host Brett Winterble, US Senator Thom Tillis, Senior Vice President of Communications - Speedway Motorsports / Charlotte Motor Speedway Scott Cooper, Moments of Hope Pastor David Chadwick, and UNC Tar Heel's radio play-by-play voice Jones Angell.

Tony Marino fills in for Bo and Beth.

The news comes two weeks before one of NASCAR's premium events-- the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 30. The event will be the first race without restrictions on fan attendance, distancing or masking since the start of the pandemic last March.

This weekend Atrium Health is hoping to administer over 16,000 vaccinations to people who are at least 65 years of age at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The speedway is the first of two mass vaccination sites, Bank of America Stadium will host a similar vaccination event in the near future.

"The vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel that will help us get back to life as we knew it," Charlotte Motor Speedway President Greg Walter said on Friday. And to be part of that is incredible. We do this all the time. we move people in and out."

A big plan to vaccinate one million people in Charlotte by July 4th. Atrium Health, Honeywell, Tepper Sports & Entertainment and the Charlotte Motor Speedway have entered into a partnership with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.