CHARLOTTE — Six Our Lady of the Assumption School fifth-grade students participated in the inaugural “Paint the Turtle” contest at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The contest refers to a moment in 2018, when NASCAR on NBC analyst and driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. claimed the sausage curbs that helped create the course looked like “turtles.”
The name stuck, and since then the art contest has drawn young people from across the region to express their creativity.
Leading into the fifth running of the Bank of America ROVAL 400 Oct. 9, six fifth-grade classes will be selected to participate and show off their creativity as they decorate a “turtle” with a literary theme.
The painted “turtles” will be placed along the course and featured throughout the race weekend. The winning class will be announced at the STEAM Expo earlier on Oct. 7 and will receive a special grand prize.
Vote for OLA’s contest entry themed after the book “Dog Man” by Dav Pilkey online at www.charlottemotorspeedway.com/paint-the-roval-turtles.
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