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AMA Pro Racing’s Ron Barrick comfirmed today that the pace car used in Sunday’s AMA Chevy Trucks U.S. Superbike Championship finale at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) will be a Jaguar, and that he will drive it.

Barrick said that the deal to use a Jaguar X model came about by chance earlier this year, when he and track public relations manager Laura Comstock encountered a Jaguar dealer during a working dinner at a local restaurant.