‘AMERICA ISRAEL RACING’ AT NASCAR
Posted: February 10, 2012 Filed under: Just the Facts 21 Comments »
America Israel Racing was formed to raise awareness of the importance of America supporting Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, as it stands against its enemies.
The North Carolina-based race team, founded in 2011, is in the process of fundraising to field a car in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starting with the Daytona 500. Through strategic partnerships and joint ventures with other organizations, America Israel Racing hopes to spread the message throughout the world that the United States supports Israel.
America Israel Racing is proud to be part of a top notch team which includes Robinson-Blakeney Racing, Driver J.J. Yeley, and Crew Chief Tony Furr.
“We wanted to ensure our car design was not only eye-catching, but properly conveyed the mission and values of America Israel Racing,” said AIR co-founder Rich Shirey. “The eagle in particular contains a great deal of symbolism – it has a determined look on its face, because we are determined to voice the importance of America’s support of Israel.
Scene Daily Rich Shirey and Mark MacCaull aren’t political activists. But they have a belief in a cause, and they’re willing to put some of their money behind it in one of the more unique places – the hood of a Sprint Cup car.
Shirey and MacCaull started American Israel Racing to generate support for Israel. It will advertise its website on the hood of the Robinson-Blakeney Racing car of driver JJ Yeley for the first three Cup races this year with hopes of continuing it throughout the season through people donating to the cause.
“I’m just a regular guy, a country guy and NASCAR has a lot of average people just like me,” Shirey said. “We need to show the world, show Israel, that regardless of the way it might look at times, the people in this country have the belief of appreciating them being an ally and a democracy similar to ours.
“I’m not a movie star. I’m not a country music singer. I didn’t have the avenue. I went to Mark and said NASCAR would be a fantastic to try to build this [cause].”
MacCaull was an engineer at Haas CNC Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing.
“Rich and I were good friends and Rich had the idea of how America needs to support Israel,” MacCaull said. “We were 
just talking about it one day and decided the Daytona 500 would be a great place to promote this and my background was in NASCAR racing.
“We started from there and put it together and realized it was a good stage and the more we talked, the more we realized we should do the entire season.”
Both MacCaull and Shirey live in the Charlotte area and share a common belief. MacCaull had known the team’s crew chief, Tony Furr, and they were able to arrange the sponsorship with the team owned by Jay Robinson.
“Being raised Southern Baptist and the belief that we should back Israel if we believe what the Bible says and the other side of it – it’s not a political thing that motivates me – we have a country that is our closest ally in a part of the world that is not very friendly, especially to the west,” Shirey said.
Awesome idea!!!!!
I will support it and send this to all my friends Inc. Facebook! Terrif, just terrific! Now it’s time for all of us who sit on our butts and complain about islam and sharia law, put ouroney where our mouth is before we don’t have any money left!
This is cool! I am non-religious, non-political activist, but do support the ‘Buddhists’ and Salvation Army, the Jews and the Israelis right to their own State, right where it is now!
I wish Rich Shirey and team success in NASCAR.
(ps The car looks cool as well.)
Shalom,
The idea of watching people turn left for two hours or more has never appealed to me…
…until now.
It STILL doesn’t appeal to me.
However, offer enough Sam Adams, and I’m there to watch!
Beer jokes aside (or should I not set them aside? It’s a good way to upset Mohammedans, after all), I am glad to see such a team in NASCAR. It’ll get an important message out to its audience.
This. Is. Phenomenal. I love it.
OMG I love cars how fantastic.
Thanks guys this is amazing.
Where do we donate?
SG, go to the Website listed there.
i wondeer if they’ve put out a die-cast collectible car yet?
Thanks BNI
The more this awesome machine – with its great painting & graphics! – is on display and/or racing across the country & the NASCAR circuit, the more “steam” it’ll gain and the more attention/support it’ll attract!
Will be sending this post far and wide. Will also send a donation. LOVE NASCAR!!! Great idea and I thank those who are doing this. G-D bless America and Israel. Nobama in 2012!!!
This is simply too flippin’ AWESOME ! I Love It,,, May G-D use them in His manner as His tools~!
HOT DOG~!
My heart felt prayers go to out these people for success in this endeavor.
Love the Hood!!
The USA and Israel Together.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VEHICLE AS IT REPRESENTS THE UNIQUE BOND BETWEEN THE U.S. AND ITS ONLY REAL ALLY IN MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL. MAY THE STRENGTH OF THIS RELATIONSHIP ONLY GROW OVER TIME. IT REPRESENTS HUMANITY’S YEARNING FOR GOODNESS AND FREEDOM.
Achmad, surely you are not a Muslim?
This is incredible!!!!
It will touch people that don’t realize what is going on!
Haven’t been that much of a NASCAR fan, but that is about to change—BIG TIME!!
The way I show my support for Israel, is to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace. Too many people have suffered and died, because of this contest of whose land it really belongs to. The given is they are both there, and the given is that Palestine must be divided into an Arab state and a Jewish state. So promote your support, by promoting a peaceful co-existence.
Tim, there already is a Palestinian state established by the UN resolution in 1948 – it’s called Jordan. That’s where they should go. Leave Israel for Israelis. There will NEVER be peace with Muslims, idiot.
Peaceful co-existence is IMPOSSIBLE with an ideology that says, “Slay the infidel wherever you find him,” and “fight until there is no persecution, and religion is for Allah alone!”
brilliant!! I love it.
I have always supported NASCAR, and now even more!!!
I have always been bullied for being a “redneck” and I tell you, is one of the most ignorant comments I can hear, it makes me laugh! The “rednecks” have the heart in the right place and have always, since the creation of the US, been integral part of their armed forces and church. More than anyone else have actively participated in the wars (from independance and civil… passing the WWI and II to Vietnam and Afghanistan)