As Chrystal Butterbee took to the stage to give the starting command at Martinsville on Sunday, veteran driver Bill Elliott sat behind the wheel of his number 21 car with his arms crossed defiantly across his chest.  “The day I let a woman tell me what to do is the day you’ll see a pig behind the wheel of this here car,” Elliott explained as the engines of the remaining 42 cars in the field roared to life.  “A woman giving the starting command!  Can you imagine?  What’s next I ask ya?  They gonna make us all put on make up and wear pretty dresses to drive these here cars?”

As the grand prize winner in the Goody’s Put Your Headache Two Laps Down Sweepstakes, Butterbee served as the Honorary Grand Marshall of the race and gave the starting command.  “It was a hoot,” Butterbee said.  “I got to see all the cute drivers.”  Unaware of the controversy surrounding her command, Butterbee took the high road and admitted she wasn’t exactly sure who Bill Elliott was but described herself as Martin Truex Jr.’s future wife.

“I ain’t even sure why I got my happy ass down here this morning,” said Elliott.  “Hell, if I want to let a woman tell me what to do, I’d mosey on back to the homestead and be with my wife!”