The EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix will happen at Circuit of the Americas in Austin on Sunday, and a sports activities determine might be on-hand to ship the pre-race invocation.
Riley Gaines might be in Austin to ship the prayer earlier than drivers go 95 laps across the street monitor.
“It is a surreal honor to ship the pre-race invocation for Sunday’s race at Circuit of the Americas. I’m grateful for the chance to steer this second of prayer to our Heavenly Father, asking for security, sportsmanship, and a spirit of unity for everybody — the drivers, groups, and followers alike,” Gaines stated to OutKick, the place she hosts the “Gaines for Ladies” podcast.Â
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Former College of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines speaks at an occasion. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal / USA As we speak Community)
“Only some girls have ever been given this distinct honor, a kind of girls being a job mannequin of mine, Sage Steele. I’m wanting ahead to an thrilling day of racing and the best way this sport brings folks along with ardour and love for our nation.”
Steele gave the invocation on the identical race two years in the past.
Gaines has been an outspoken advocate of protecting transgender athletes out of women’ and ladies’s sports activities ever since she competed in opposition to Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer who went on to win an NCAA Division I title.
The brand new Nationwide Course structure forward of qualifying for the Xfinity Sequence Targeted Well being 250 on February 28, 2025, on the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX. (David Buono/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photos)
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Gaines was not too long ago on-hand on the White Home to see President Donald Trump signal an govt order that goals to maintain organic males from competing in opposition to the alternative intercourse. Nonetheless, a number of states haven’t complied with the order, resulting in no less than three Title IX investigations.
It is the third official race of the NASCAR season, which opened with William Byron’s second consecutive win on the Daytona 500. Christopher Bell took house the checkered flag ultimately week’s Ambetter Well being 400 in Atlanta.
Riley Gaines has championed equity in girls’s sports activities. (XX-XY Athletics)
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Sunday’s race might be 228 miles; it was received by Byron final yr.
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