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Posted: Monday, May 31st, 2004 5:56 AM HST

Jasmine Trias gets a lesson in NASCAR

By Associated Press

(Concord, North Carolina-AP) -- Eight ``American Idol'' finalists -- including Hawaii's Jasmine Trias -- sang the National Anthem and got a quick tutorial on NASCAR race cars before today's Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina. The eight crooners from the Fox television show posed for pictures and signed autographs while changing tires, handling refueling canisters and sitting in a race car just behind pit road. They weren't all NASCAR experts, though. Trias, the 17-year-old Mililani native who finished third in this season's competition, got a surprise when she prepared to get in the driver's seat. Trias asked -- ``There's no door?'' (Copyright 2004 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.)