Two Colorado Lottery Players Have Crossed the Finish Line to Win in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff™ Promotion

In the Powerball Playoff: 16 lottery players – one from from CO – are locked in for chance to win $1 million, the drawing to be broadcast live from 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend

Pueblo, Colo. (September 3, 2024) – Two Colorado Lottery NASCAR promotion winners are revving up for exciting NASCAR experiences. As one of 16 out of 25 people to be drawn in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff™, Mary Mauro from Denver will win $2,500 automatically, plus a chance to win a VIP trip for two to 2024 NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway® and entry into a nationally-televised drawing to win $1 million. Savino Barella, from Fort Collins, won a Colorado Lottery-sponsored accompanying promotion for a NASCAR Championship Weekend package to the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race™.

An elimination-style promotion, in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff™ Mauro has four more drawings to potentially win both the NASCAR experience and $1 million. If she does not move forward to the next drawing, she still takes home $2,500. Barella’s NASCAR experience includes a trip for two to Phoenix, AZ, round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, tickets to the race, $1,000 spending cash, and all taxes paid.

Mauro told the Colorado Lottery that she is an avid Colorado Lottery player. Over the years, she’s won a bit here and there, including a Nuggets package back in the Carmelo Anthony days, and three years ago won $5K on the Wild Cash Scratch ticket. She’s never been to NASCAR, but says if she’s picked, they are all set to go. She’s thinking about a family vacation to Hawaii with her $2,500 winnings if she doesn’t move forward and added that it “feels good” to support parks and outdoors, and playing is fun!

Barella admitted that he and his wife don’t know very much about NASCAR, but they are excited at the opportunity to attend the big race. When he purchased his usual Powerball ticket with “the works,” he saw that he was entered and thought, “fat chance I’ll ever win.” This is the first time he’s won a substantial prize.

The 16 lottery players were publicly announced during the broadcast of the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on USA Network. The 16 lottery players will advance to a series of Playoff drawings that mirror the elimination rounds of the NASCAR Playoffs. The four lottery players still in the Playoff after the Championship 4 drawing will win a VIP trip for two to NASCAR Championship Weekend™ at Phoenix Raceway®, Nov. 8-10, plus entry into the drawing for the $1 million prize.

The $1 million drawing will be broadcast live during NBC’s pre-race coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race™ on Sunday, Nov. 10. Cash prizes will be awarded to all 16 lottery players based on their elimination position.

The VIP trip experience includes roundtrip airfare for two to Phoenix, Ariz., three nights hotel accommodations – double occupancy, two Ally Curve Hospitality Club passes for both the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race on Nov. 9 and the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race on Nov. 10, two passes for VIP experiences at Phoenix Raceway during the NASCAR Championship Weekend including Cup Series™ VIP access, NASCAR team hauler tour, MRN radio booth tour, pace car rides, Victory Lane access, welcome dinner and all meals, and ground transportation to scheduled events and activities.

Lotteries that participated in the 2024 NASCAR Powerball Playoff include Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hoosier (Indiana), Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

The next drawing in the NASCAR Powerball Playoff will be for the Round of 12. The 12 lottery players advancing in the Playoff will be announced during the Bass Pro Shops Night Right Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sept. 21. The four lottery players eliminated from the Playoff will win $2,500 each. The race will air live on USA Network, PRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio at 7:30 p.m. ET. Players can follow the NASCAR Powerball Playoff on Facebook, Instagram, and online at Powerball.com.

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About Colorado Lottery

Since 1983, the Colorado Lottery has returned more than $4 billion to outdoor projects and schools through Great Outdoors Colorado, the Conservation Trust Fund, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and Building Excellent Schools Today. Proceeds from sales of Colorado Lottery games – Scratch, Powerball, Mega Millions, Colorado Lotto+, Lucky for Life, Cash 5, and Pick 3 – enhance, protect, and improve parks, trails, and open space in Colorado, and fund critical infrastructure projects for schools. For more information, visit coloradolottery.com.

About Powerball

Powerball® holds the current world record for largest national lottery jackpot at $2.04 billion. Since its first drawing in 1992, the game has helped generate more than $32 billion for good causes supported by U.S. lotteries. More than half of all proceeds from the sale of a Powerball ticket remain in the jurisdiction where the ticket was sold. Powerball tickets are $2 per play. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball drawings are broadcast live every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. ET from the Florida Lottery draw studio in Tallahassee. Powerball drawings are also live streamed on Powerball.com.

About NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 14 of the nation’s major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR sanctions races in three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series™), four international series (NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race, NASCAR Canada Series, NASCAR Mexico Series, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour) and a local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in five cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races annually in 11 countries and more than 30 U.S. states.

For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X and Snapchat.

SOURCE: Colorado Lottery.