For the upcoming NASCAR Pennzoil 400 this Sunday at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, WWE Women’s United States Champion Chelsea Green has been named the celebrity pace car driver.
Fox Sports’ Bob Pockrass reported on X that Green will be present for the Cup Series race this weekend. She joins a list of key celebrities from the world of wrestling who led NASCAR races.
WWE Women’s United States champion Chelsea Green will be honorary pace car driver for Cup race at Vegas this weekend.
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) March 10, 2025
Post Wrestling reported that Matt Hardy was the pace car driver for the 2018 NASCAR Can-Am 500 at the ISM Raceway, while Charlotte Flair led the 2019 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Green defeated Michin last weekend and held onto her wrestling championship title.
The race at Las Vegas follows a thrilling event at Phoenix, where Christopher Bell secured his third consecutive Cup Series victory following a close battle with Denny Hamlin. The feat adds Bell into the history books, making him the 19th driver to secure three wins in a row.
Bell’s impressive performances this season have made him one of the favorites for the championship. Hamlin, who missed winning the race by a few milliseconds, gave his reaction to Bell’s victory. Newsweek Sports reported:
“It’s so hard for me to kind of analyze it from the outside, because I’m not embedded with their team as much as I am with my own team, right?
“I mean obviously you see a gain in performance there, but you don’t; it could be a lot of different things. Car’s better, is it circumstances in a speedway race or road course race? Or this one, I guess he probably dominated, right?
“I don’t know, circumstance or not three in a row is pretty impressive and whatever they’re doing is just working well.”
Ahead of the Las Vegas race this weekend, Bell told NASCAR on Fox’s Kevin Harvick that he and his team, Joe Gibbs Racing, will adopt the same approach as previous race weekends, stressing that his recent wins have boosted their confidence. He said:
“Just take it all in and enjoy it. It’s, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday I’ll be living my best life, and then whenever it gets time to get closer to the weekend it’s going to be all focus on the task at hand. And we’ll be starting from scratch, and I think I told you last week that what happened at Atlanta and COTA had no bearing on Phoenix.
“Well, what happened at Phoenix this week has no bearing on going to an intermediate mile and a half at Las Vegas in a couple of days. So, we’ll all be starting from the same baseline again. The only difference is that my pit crew members, myself driving, Adam Stevens, we definitely have some added confidence. And that’s worth something.”
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