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Farmers-Hendrick Deal Good For NASCAR

T.C. — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:00:28 +0000

The business end of NASCAR is finally starting to turn around, and we saw proof of it this last week. On Tuesday, Farmers Insurance announced a three year deal to sponsor Kasey Kahne’s #5 Chevrolets at Hendrick Motorsports. Farmers will be the primary sponsor for 22 races each season, and will get “prominent brand placement” [...]

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NASCAR’s Fan Costs Have Come Down, But Not Enough

T.C. — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:34:30 +0000

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Start-And-Park Has Become A Mode Of Survival

T.C. — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:05:30 +0000

Before I really get into this post, I wanted to share a quote from Michael McDowell that he posted tonight on his Twitter page (@Mc_Driver). McDowell has been driving the #55 for Prism Motorsports this season, and is one of the start-and-park crowd’s usual suspects. There was some discussion about the reasons often given for why [...]

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Is NASCAR Starting Its Recovery?

Journo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:10:43 +0000

The last two seasons have been rough for this sport. Sponsors have left, fields have shrank and teams have folded. Mergers became the new name of the game for many fledgling organizations and layoffs plagued the industry. What NASCAR was faced with was a forced correction thanks to a bad economy. As a result the [...]

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‘NASCAR’s In Trouble.’ We Get It.

Journo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:50:27 +0000

Earlier this afternoon I was surfing through major news Web sites checking on the day’s happenings. As I scrolled down the page on MSNBC.com I got to the ‘other top stories’ section. About halfway down was the headline ‘Opinion: NASCAR In Trouble.’ Next to it was a separate article that said something like ‘But Danica [...]

The Best And Worst Of NASCAR In 2009

Journo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:34:53 +0000

For those of you who follow us on Twitter, you know every Monday we do a ‘best and worst’ of the weekend tweet. With the 2009 season now in the bag, we thought it might be fun to bring it over to the blog and ask you to do your best and worst of the [...]

Hard Times for NCWTS Sponsorships

Journo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:26:12 +0000

Sponsorship, or lack thereof has been on the mind of just about every team executive in NASCAR this season. While the year has been rough for the sponsorship market as a whole, in no place has it hit harder then in the Truck Series. The biggest anomaly in the series are the amount of experienced, winning [...]

NASCAR’s Perception Problem

Journo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:04:44 +0000

I think I should probably just start a problem series. I have been writing about it a lot lately. But I digress… At the beginning of the season many in the media would have had you believing the world was crashing in on us. They were predicting empty race tracks, fleeing sponsors and failing teams. Well six [...]