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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Longhorns football program will have a big presence at Circuit of the Americas when NASCAR rumbles into Austin, Texas for the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix.
Head coach Steve Sarkisian, fresh off taking the Longhorns to the Big 12 Conference title, College Football Playoff and No. 3 national ranking last season, will be the honorary starter for the NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday. He’ll wave the green flag as the drivers roll over the starting line at 2:30 p.m.
Cameron Dicker, known affectionately as “Dicker the Kicker,” will give the invocation before the race begins. Dicker, who plays for the Los Angeles Chargers, hit 94% of his field goals in 2023, making 31 of 33 kicks, and was a star for the Longhorns from 2018-21.
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