Brian Vickers has picked his former home-school teacher, Cheryl Martin, of Thomasville as his hometown hero, and she will be featured on a new series of NASCAR vignettes on Speed TV, May 14th. Martin also home-schooled Austin and Adam Petty, Justin Labonte and other NASCAR kids. Other personal heroes in the one-hour telecast include David Reutimann and father Buzzy, Ryan Newman and high school teacher Frank Cackowski, Ken Schrader and fellow dirt-racer Don Klein, David Ragan and father Ken Ragan, Carl Edwards and long-time friend Timmy Kahoots, and Matt Kenseth and father Roy.
-- Winston-Salem Journal
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