Jared Leto continued his cross-country journey known as “Mars Across America” with a pit stop at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. Leto is visiting unique destinations that showcase the title subject of the band’s upcoming album, AMERICA, and Wednesday’s slice of Americana featured NASCAR and “The Great American Speedway.”
'Thirty Seconds To Mars' lead singer Leto hitched a ride from a 7-Eleven in neighboring Northlake on Highway 114 to the speedway with visiting NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Tyler Reddick of JR Motorsports. Reddick picked up Leto in the Texas Motor Speedway O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 Chevrolet Camaro pace car, where he created a dust storm by doing several doughnuts around the star in a vacant dirt lot before allowing him to get in.
Reddick and Leto followed a police escort by the Northlake and Roanoke Police Departments to pit lane at Texas Motor Speedway, where Leto had a few surprises for him. The duo pulled the cover off a Team Texas stock car that revealed a special car wrap featuring the pink AMERICA album cover. They took the car for spin around Texas Motor Speedway.
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“Wow. That was amazing,” Leto said after emerging from the car. “This guy (Reddick), he knows what he’s doing out there. That was a thrill for me to be able to do that. I didn’t know whether I was screaming from excitement or from being scared — but I was screaming.”
As for Reddick, it wasn’t as much the ride as it was the passenger, who happens to be the front man for an immensely popular rock band and an Academy Award-winning actor.
“This was a bucket list item for me and I’m sure it was for him, too,” Reddick said. “I sometimes forget how cool my job is, so when I see someone like Jared — he’s a big-time music and movie star — so when I see how excited he was and the smile he had on his face getting out of the car. That was just awesome.”
.@TylerReddick signs a helmet presented by @TXMotorSpeedway to @JaredLeto on pit road. pic.twitter.com/SG5HBEAc1x— JR Motorsports (@JRMotorsports) April 4, 2018
Leto and 'Thirty Seconds To Mars' have in excess of 33 MILLION combined followers over the three major social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Leto has 20.35 million followers with 9.8m on Instagram (@jaredleto), 5.8m on Facebook (facebook.com/jaredleto) and 4.75m on Twitter (@JaredLeto).
'Thirty Seconds To Mars' checks in with 12.89 million followers with a breakdown of 9.5m on Facebook, 2.09m on Twitter (@30SECONDSTOMARS) and 1.3m on Instagram (@30secondstomars).
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