{"id":133371,"date":"2025-09-04T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133371\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:18:10","slug":"nascar-announces-danville-nonprofit-as-2025-neighborhood-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133371\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR announces Danville nonprofit as 2025 Neighborhood Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DANVILLE, Va. (WSET) \u2014  NASCAR is gearing up for its return to the Bristol Motor Speedway, known as the &#8220;Last Great Colosseum,&#8221; for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, and they&#8217;re recognizing a local group for the important work it does in the community and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>Race officials visited God\u2019s Pit Crew in Danville to announce the organization as this year\u2019s Neighborhood Hero, acknowledging their significant relief work. The faith-based group has built and furnished 114 homes for victims of natural disasters and played a crucial role in recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/gods-pit-crew-builds-home-for-family-of-9-after-mudslide-destroys-home-in-buchanan-county#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/gods-pit-crew-builds-home-for-family-of-9-after-mudslide-destroys-home-in-buchanan-county#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">God&#8217;s Pit Crew unveils home for family of 9 after mudslide destroys home in Grundy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Randy Johnson expressed gratitude for the recognition, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s a great boost, I know, to them that somebody like Bristol Motor Speedway would recognize the efforts that they put forth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Pit Crew will be formally honored during the pre-race ceremonies at Bristol on Saturday, September 13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DANVILLE, Va. (WSET) \u2014 NASCAR is gearing up for its return to the Bristol Motor Speedway, known as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[13089,1075,84064,84066,47095,425,84065,84067,99],"class_list":["post-133371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-bristol-motor-speedway","tag-community","tag-danville","tag-gods-pit-crew","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-nascar","tag-neighborhood-hero","tag-relief-work","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}