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<\/p>\nOverlooking Turns 2 and 3 of the 3.4-mile street course at Naval Base Coronado, there sits the massive USS Carl Vinson. Up on the bridge of the 1,092-foot vessel is where you can find the broadcast booth for this Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race.<\/p>\n
The Anduril 250 is the fifth and final race in Prime’s five week stretch as a broadcaster for NASCAR, following FOX Sports and preceding TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
Play-by-play announcer Adam Alexander will be joined by NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and former Daytona 500-winning crew chief Steve Letarte up on the bridge of the Nimitz-class supercarrier, where they will call the 75-lap Cup race.<\/p>\n
Alexander called the experience ‘unreal’ ahead of practice on Friday, while Earnhardt added: “Everywhere you look, there’s something you’ve never seen before, something you’ve never experienced before. Name any race track, we’ve been to them dozens and dozens of times, but this is a first for everybody. So far, we’ve seen some pretty incredible things on the race track and around town as well.”<\/p>\n
Letarte echoed those comments, admitting the entire experience “has\u00a0been distracting, to say the least. Everywhere i turn, there is something I want to go check out.”<\/p>\n
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The USS Carl Vinson was launched on March 15, 1980, and can be easily identified by its hull number, CVN-70. It displaces 101,300 long tons of water, and is powered by two\u00a0Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors and four massive steam turbines. It can reach a\u00a0top speed of 30 knots.<\/p>\n
It cost over one billion dollars to build the ship over 45 years ago, and was named for a long-time member of U.S. House of Representatives who served as the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n
The vessel has been a part of several key moments in American history, including the burial-at-sea of Osama bin Laden following a covert 2011 raid by SEAL Team Six to eliminate the terrorist leader in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
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