On the weekend of the annual NFL draft, it was appropriate that the honorary pace car driver for Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway was a Kansas-born NFL player. Jordy Nelson, a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, was a top player at Kansas State, which is located in Manhattan, about 125 miles east of the speedway. And Nelson got a unique experience, too. Once Nelson was in the pace car, he received constant radio updates from Sprint Cup Series Race Director David Hoots, who was forced to give multiple "one to go" calls before the track was suitable.
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