{"id":31422,"date":"2025-02-11T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/zz-tops-billy-f-gibbons-named-grand-marshal-of-atlantas-ambetter-health-400-nascar-event\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:02:58","slug":"zz-tops-billy-f-gibbons-named-grand-marshal-of-atlantas-ambetter-health-400-nascar-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/zz-tops-billy-f-gibbons-named-grand-marshal-of-atlantas-ambetter-health-400-nascar-event\/","title":{"rendered":"ZZ Top\u2019s Billy F Gibbons named grand marshal of Atlanta\u2019s Ambetter Health 400 NASCAR event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-10\/Getty_BillyGibbons_021025.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ZZ Top<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Billy F Gibbons<\/strong> has been named grand marshal for Atlanta Motor Speedway\u2019s upcoming Ambetter Health 400,\u00a0the main event of Atlanta\u2019s spring NASCAR weekend, Feb. 21-23.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambetter Health 400 will go down on Feb. 23, with\u00a0Gibbons helping to kick off the race by declaring the classic race intro, &#8220;Drivers, start your engines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ticket info can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantamotorspeedway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbons is currently on tour with his band the <strong>BFGs<\/strong>. The trek hits\u00a0Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, with dates confirmed through Feb. 20 in Bristol, Tennessee. A complete list of\u00a0shows\u00a0can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/billygibbons.com\/tour\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabZ59HFqLxPhBtK6MS1xZBOp0_gWVhjyyKVCmH_AhLIsHVZC5D8hlCU2MA_aem_NoseP7CxlE7XAs7yq7TReA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>billygibbons.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, ZZ Top will hit the road starting March 5 in Dotham, Alabama, with the tour set to run until Aug. 23 in Richmond, British Columbia. Tour dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zztop.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>zztop.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images ZZ Top guitarist Billy F Gibbons has been named grand marshal for Atlanta Motor Speedway\u2019s upcoming Ambetter Health 400,\u00a0the main event of Atlanta\u2019s spring NASCAR weekend, Feb. 21-23. The Ambetter Health 400 will go down on Feb. 23, with\u00a0Gibbons helping to kick off the race by declaring<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/zz-tops-billy-f-gibbons-named-grand-marshal-of-atlantas-ambetter-health-400-nascar-event\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}