| | Tomkins and ginn cruise into semis on day 4 of the tour to meet up at the start of the race (Photo: David Zalubowski, AP) Story Highlights Ginn also met with family of another young driver on tour
The two will meet again on Sunday at 1 a.m. ET, a day earlier
Ginn is currently leading the Tour Divide
A former junior champion, Dale Jones, will take part in the fourth round of the Tour Divide race on Sunday, according to Tires.com, the official official supplier of official race track tires for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and Formula One.
It will be Tires' 16th season of supplying major league ballparks with official race track tires.
"We are excited to offer the race with Ginn as our third driver in our partnership with the race sponsor," said Tires chief marketing officer Scott Oberg. "We believe Dale Jones will bring another great element to the stage race, with a fantastic attitude and a passion for driving."
While the course will have many long downhill sections that may give racers problems, they will not affect the driving speed or control at the start or finish of each lap.
"That won't happen," said Ginn, whose teammates Nick Williams and Ryan White are also in the race for the fourth time this season. "It's an exciting and dynamic race with lots of high speed sections, a good variety of turns and wide flat sections throughout, and it all adds up to something that is very fun and unique and entertaining for everyone.
"I'm so looking forward to going through it on the race track. It's just going to be awesome."
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Oberg said the partnership with Tire is "very successful" and that each tire will provide "a huge amount of value and the experience that the track provides, giving Ginn and his team an amazing foundation for the year ahead" and for the remainder of the year.
In a statement, Jones confirmed that he and Ginn will be among those making the start and finish statements at the start of the race, and Jones told reporters on Friday: "I'm just going to get to know it more thoroughly over the next week or two, and have to keep doing my best."
"This is a really fun race," he said. "We did well here. We had a really good group of guys. Ginn really made good use of the weather on the course."
After finishing last season with a 24th place finish at the Tour Divide (that he won at Bristol in July), Jones joined the No. 42 Tire of Texas squad in a series of changes that began in 2011. As part of th
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