Start of press release from Action Performance:
Beginning with the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star race, things will start to get wild at the racetrack as characters from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, Madagascar, join the nighttime excitement on stock car racing’s biggest stage.
DreamWorks, Joe Gibbs Racing, Interstate Batteries, The Home Depot and Action Performance Companies Inc. united to launch the Madagascar program, which features NASCAR® drivers Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte. The film’s four principle characters – Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus – were developed into paint schemes that will decorate Stewart’s No. 20 The Home Depot and Labonte’s No. 18 Interstate Batteries Chevrolet race cars.
Stewart will debut the No. 20 The Home Depot/Madagascar Chevrolet during the NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star Challenge on Saturday night, May 21, 2005.
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-Bob