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Pro Stock champ Coughlin to start new season in a bobsled

DELAWARE, Ohio (Dec. 20) -- POWERade Pro Stock champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. isn't wasting any time to return to racing in 2008 as the 51-time national event winner was chosen to be a part of Team NHRA at the third annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, Jan. 3-5, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Coughlin and four fellow drag racers will take on Team NASCAR in the fundraising event, which raises money for the United States Olympic Bobsledding Team.

"I'm as excited as a kid on that first day of snow," said Coughlin, who lives in Delaware, Ohio. "I've done my fair share of sledding over the years, even recently with my son Jeggie III, but this is a considerable step up in equipment."

Coughlin was asked to participate by defending event runner-up Morgan Lucas, a Top Fuel driver on the POWERade Drag Racing Series. Sponsored in part my Lucas Oil, the Bodine Bobsled Challenge supports Bo-Dyn Bobsleds, which has designed and built American-made bobsleds for the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team since 1992.
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