McDowell’s Chevrolet SS will feature WRL and K-Love as its primary sponsors, per usual with the supporting hashtag for the Food City 500 on Monday at 1 p.m.
Reno, Nevada high school student Carter Wilkerson struck Twitter gold in recent weeks. His fame has now made it into NASCAR.
Wilkerson began as a high schooler with about 150 followers, but after his tweet to Wendy’s asking for a year’s supply of nuggets he is a celebrity with over 92k followers.
Wilkerson asked how many retweets would be needed for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets, to which Wendy’s replied “18 million.” As of now, Wilkerson has 3.26 million retweets and has made an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show.
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
This out-pour caught the attention of Concord, NC based NASCAR team Leavine Family Racing. LFR’s Michael McDowell will sport the #NuggsForCarter hashtag on the rear bumper — for free. Free sponsorship is not typically in NASCAR’s vocabulary, but McDowell and the № 95 team just wanted to help him out.
“It all started out just for fun. I just really wanted some chicken nuggets,” said Wilkerson. “Now, we’ve raised more than $100,000 for charity and it just keeps growing.”
The charity donation comes from Wendy’s promise to donate $100,000 to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption if he surpassed 3.2 million retweets — he did.
Wilkerson is closing in on Ellen DeGeneres’s most retweeted tweet ever at 3.41 million; something they jokingly discussed could not happen.
McDowell’s Chevrolet SS will feature WRL and K-Love as its primary sponsors, per usual with the supporting hashtag for the Food City 500 on Monday at 1 p.m.
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