CALVERT CITY, Ky. – Kentucky Lake Motor Speedway has named Billy Egeler as track announcer and John Westerfield as starter.
Both are from Owensboro, Ky.
Egeler, 40, has worked as an announcer in various motor sports events at tracks such as Kentucky Motor Speedway in Owensboro, Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, Soggy Bottom Raceway (now Cedar Ridge Speedway) in Morgantown, Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind., and Paducah International Raceway.
For the past nine years, he has worked as host of an auto racing radio program, Radio Goes Racing, on WKTG-FM in Madisonville. He has also promoted racing events and previously worked as a volunteer crew member for local racers.
Westerfield, 28, is following in the footsteps of his father, Les Westerfield, a 27-year veteran official with NASCAR who is presently race director of the K&N Pro East Series and also works with NASCAR’s Research and Development department.
He began work as a flagman in 2005 at Windy Hollow Speedway in Owensboro and has served in that job the past three years at Western Kentucky Speedway in Nebo in northern Hopkins County.