Turner Network Television has joined forces with Grammy-nominated rockers Buckcherry to feature the band's version of Deep Purple's classic song "Highway Star" as the network's theme song for its 2009 Sprint Cup Series coverage. The song will serve as the primary musical bed for all six of TNT's races, as well as for the network's multiplatform marketing campaign surrounding its exclusive race coverage.

It is fucking terrible. And NASCAR drivers are not highway stars, they drive around an oval track. Watch the horror below.