Randy Rogers and Randy Rogers Band Team Up with Parker Chase Racing

NEW BRAUNFELS, Tex., (June 27, 2019) – IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race car driver Parker Chase has welcomed country recording and touring artists Randy Rogers and the Randy Rogers Band as his newest partners in his 2019 sports car racing program with Starworks Motorsport. The band celebrates its 19th anniversary this year and joins Chase to promote its eighth studio album, Hellbent .

Randy, who also hails from New Braunfels, has been a close friend of the Chase family for many years, performing concerts at the historic Saengerhalle — a dance hall owned by the family in the early 2000s, long before Randy and the band reached the nationwide audience they have today.

“I’ve known Parker Chase almost his entire life. I watched him go from crawl to walk to run to race. And he was hellbent on making it to the next level the whole way, says Randy. “Partnering with him on promoting our new album just makes sense. We both know a thing or two about Hellbent!”

“I am so excited to partner with the Randy Rogers Band,” says Chase. “Growing up in Texas, I’ve been a huge fan for as long as I can remember. To get to be part of promoting his newest album, Hellbent — and single ‘Crazy People’ — is an honor, and a title quite fitting for our team.”

Randy Rogers Band will be a part of Chase’s racing program for the remainder of his season, starting with the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen this weekend at Watkins Glen International Raceway. Chase will race the No. 8 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo in the six hour endurance racing event with Starworks Motorsport co-drivers Ryan Dalziel and Mike Skeen. The three drivers will rotate turns during the six hour race, competing against 36 other cars in four classes on the 11-turn, 3.4 mile road course in Watkins Glen, New York.

Music from Randy Rogers Band can be heard all weekend at the Starworks Motorsport garage in the IMSA paddock while the team prepares the car for each day of on track activity. Chase and the team will also be giving away band related merchandise throughout the course of the weekend, both in person and on social media.

The 2019 Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen will begin Sunday, June 30 at 9:45AM Eastern and air on NBCSN that evening at 7:00PM. Fans can watch the race live in its entirety on the NBC Sports app and NBCSports.com starting at 9:30AM ET. IMSA Radio will also stream live audio coverage of every session throughout the weekend on imsa.com, radiolemans.com, and on race day via SiriusXM Radio on channel 218, and XM 202.

About Randy Rogers Band

Helmed by Randy Rogers, a hard-touring frontman whose mix of "country music based in the genre’s rich outlaw tradition" (New York Times) and "red-blooded heartland rock" (Dallas Observer) has earned an audience not only in his native Texas, but also across the entire country, Randy has sent seven consecutive albums — including his 2015 duet album with Wade Bowen — into the Top 10 of the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. Hellbent finds him working once again with his longtime band, whose members will celebrate their 20-year anniversary next year (2020). That's not the group's only recent milestone. In addition to debuting at Number Three on the Billboard Country chart and Number Four on the Americana/Folk chart, Hellbent also cracked the all-genre Top 40 — a landmark for any band, but a particular rarity for an independent act.

With more than 97 million plays on Pandora in 2018 alone, Randy Rogers Band has continuously balanced its popularity as a live act with equally impressive digital stats. Hellbent continues that trend, debuting at the very top of the iTunes country chart while receiving prominent displays on Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. "Crazy People," the album's lead single, has already received over 1.1 million streams, landing placements in a number of high-subscriber Spotify playlists (including Wild Country, whose subscriber base exceeds 760,000 people) along the way. Additionally, the song has also dominated the Texas Radio Chart, recently holding the Number One position for two consecutive weeks.

For tickets and an updated tour schedule, visit randyrogersband.com, and to keep up with the band online, please follow them on social media, here:

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About Parker Chase

At just 18 years old, American sports car driver Parker Chase is one of North America’s up and coming sports car drivers. Already a champion in professional auto racing by age 17, Chase is quickly setting a name for himself as a driver to watch. In 2018, just seven years after beginning his racing career at age 10, Chase clinched the Pirelli World Challenge GT SprintX Pro/Am Championship with co-driver Ryan Dalziel, piloting an Audi R8 GT3. This year, the successful duo of Chase and Dalziel will compete together again, stepping up to race in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GTD class. Beginning with the legendary Rolex 24 At Daytona, the pair will travel across North America this season, racing the Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo. The step up to one of North America’s most competitive sports car series will bring new challenges, including four endurance races within the full season calendar.

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