M&T Bank Revs Up Monster Mile® Checking with Dover International Speedway

WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Race fans, start your engines and head to your local M&T Bank branch for your very own Monster Mile® Check Card! For the first time, the Monster Mile Check Card is available with any M&T Bank personal checking account. The card features the track at Dover International Speedway, along with its famous icon "Miles the Monster."

Race fans can get the Monster Mile Check Card at any M&T Bank branch or online at www.mtb.com/monstermile. Thanks to the new partnership of M&T Bank and Dover International Speedway, the card is available for all M&T Bank customers with personal checking accounts.

"Race fans are passionate about their sport and M&T Bank is passionate about the communities it serves," said Nicholas P. Lambrow, president of M&T's Delaware region. "Our partnership with Dover International Speedway is a great way to help race fans show their pride with the Monster Mile Check Card, and to show our commitment to our communities in Delaware and to race fans everywhere."

LIMITED EDITION DIE CAST STOCK CAR

As an added bonus, a limited edition, 24:1 scale, die cast stock car will be given to customers who open a new personal checking account and select the Monster Mile Check Card, while supplies last. Full details and a photo of the car are available at www.mtb.com/monstermile.

BUY 1 TICKET, GET 1 FREE OFFER

In celebration of M&T becoming the official bank of Dover International Speedway, M&T Bank is offering customers a special ticket deal. Race fans can save on race tickets for the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway.  

All M&T Bank customers with a personal M&T Visa® Credit Card or any M&T Check Card can get two tickets for the price of one to the AAA 400 on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011. The offer is only available online at www.mtb.com/monstermile. The offer is good for up to 12 tickets per household (six paid, six free) and ends Sept. 21, 2011, so skip the pit stop and get online today!

USO TICKET DONATION

In appreciation for the service of our men and women of the Armed Forces, M&T Bank donated 100 tickets to USO Delaware for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Dover International Speedway over the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Officials from USO Delaware will distribute the tickets to service members stationed at Dover Air Force Base.

DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY PARTNERSHIP

M&T Bank continues the partnership with Dover International Speedway originally formed with Wilmington Trust, which merged with M&T earlier this year. As the official bank of the Speedway, representatives from M&T Bank will be on hand in the FanZone when NASCAR race weekend returns to the track.

The first 200 M&T Bank customers to visit the bank's booth and show their M&T or Wilmington Trust check card will receive a free track tour pass for Sunday, Oct. 2.

Race fans can even sign up for a Monster Mile Check Card at the M&T Bank booth during the race weekend and receive the limited edition die cast stock car!

For more information about the Monster Mile® Check Card and the ticket offer for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA 400, race online to www.mtb.com/monstermile.

Dover Motorsports, Inc. is a leading promoter of NASCAR sanctioned motorsports events whose subsidiaries own and operate Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware and Nashville Superspeedway near Nashville, Tennessee. For further information, log on to www.dovermotorsports.com.

M&T Bank, founded in 1856, is one of the top 20 independent commercial bank holding companies in the nation, with $78 billion in assets and more than 770 branches and 2,000 ATMs in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Ontario, Canada. Read more about M&T Bank online at www.mtb.com/newsroom.

For further information:

Dover International Speedway: Gary Camp (302)883-6560

M&T Bank: Megen Morris (302)651-1462

SOURCE M&T Bank