And the Road to 1,000 Grand Prize Winner Is...

After weeks of promotions and thousands of entries, JRM has announced the grand prize winner of our Road to 1,000 Giveaway.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (July 31, 2018) – The Road to 1,000 Giveaway, which preceded the 1,000th NASCAR Xfinity Series start in JR Motorsports history, has ended with the selection of Meadville, Pa.’s Tom Bone as the Grand Prize winner. The Giveaway chronicled JRM’s journey to 1,000 starts (Starts 1-250, Starts 251-500, Starts 501-750 and Starts 751-999).

Bone, 36, joins weekly winners Aric Mikula of Maiden, N.C. (No. 1 team prize pack), Charlsie Medlin of Gainesville, Ga. (No. 5 team prize pack), Sarah Wisecup of Macomb, Ill. (No. 7 team prize pack) and Christina Joyner of Stockton, Calif. (No. 9 team prize pack) as winners in the Road to 1,000 Giveaway.

In addition to the $1,000 top prize, Bone will also receive a JRM Memorabilia Prize Pack.

Bone began his career as a NASCAR fan like most of us do, watching races on TV as a kid. “The first time I really got into NASCAR, I was 10 or 11 years old and flipping through channels on the TV,” he said. “There happened to be a race on, and I was hooked from then on.”

Winning the top prize in the Giveaway means that Bone can expand his race travel, too. “I’m planning on using some of it on the May races at Charlotte Motor Speedway next year,” he said. Bone’s favorite track is Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, though the one time he went to watch a race there, it was rather...wet. “I went there the year that the hurricane went through...I was in a tent, too,” he said.

An extensive collector of NASCAR die-cast cars, Bone has some JRM inventory in hand. “I have some JRM cars, including Jeffrey Earnhardt’s No. 5 car that he ran for the team,” Bone said. Some of his collection, of course, has Earnhardt written all over it.

“I’ve been a Dale Jr. fan for a long time...we share the same birthday,” Bone revealed. “My biggest Earnhardt memory was a long time ago, when they (Dale Sr. and Dale Jr.) raced in Japan (1998 NASCAR Thunder Motegi). I was quite young.”

Bone’s favorite current JRM driver is Justin Allgaier, who nearly took the No. 7 Precision Tank Chevrolet to victory at Iowa last Sunday in start No. 1,000 for the team.