Find out who won a few NASCAR Loopies awards, how many years Sprint has renewed their title sponsorship for and the specials on SPEED that are focused on the NASCAR HoF inductees!
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I have a collection of press releases sitting in my inbox so I thought I’d share some of these items.
Sprint Extends Their Contract
First up, NASCAR and Sprint have extended their relationship with each other, through the year of 2016. And that’s a good thing, considering how some sponsors aren’t fully committing to sponsorships within the sport.
So to Sprint, thank you for re-upping and remaining the entitlement partner to NASCAR.
Sprint Nextel has been the NASCAR title sponsor since February of 2004.
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NASCAR’s Loopies
NASCAR has put together what they call The Loopies, or their fifth annual Best-Of-Loop Data from the 2011 season. That’s right, the statistical look at some milestones in on-track performance.
And they added a new category that is funny and interesting, that has to do with Brad Keselowski.
But first some simple Loop stats:
“There were 131,989 green flag passes this season, the most since NASCAR started recording the stat in 2005. Though not Loop Data, there were also an average of 27.1 lead changes and 12.8 leaders per race, both Cup Series records.”
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This article is an opinion on the performance of NASCAR’s Jimmie Johnson and how consistently he has performed since his rookie year, no matter what points system or car type he’s been in. After I’m done, you just might understand why I’ve started see Johnson’s performance for what it is .
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I’ve always been a bit confused about a vocal part of the NASCAR fan base who have such a rage-on for Jimmie Johnson.
It’s amazing how people can dig up the hate on the guy. An acquaintance of mine had spouted his distaste for Jimmie after he won his fifth straight championship. According to his opinion, my peer declared that NASCAR made sure their golden boy won his fifth title and went on to declare that it was a crock of refuse. (But with the grittier word in place of refuse.)
NASCAR’s Golden Boy
But if you really have to know, NASCAR’s golden boy is Dale Earnhardt Jr., who accounts for over 50% of all merchandise sales of diecast, clothing & accessories of the sport. And as his performance has been declining, so too have been the sales, and NASCAR feels that pinch, whether you realize it or not.
If NASCAR were to actually back their “golden boy,” they’d do everything they could to get Dale Eanrhardt Jr. in the winner’s circle and out of his business suit where Dale Jr owns a lot of companies like television production companies, race tracks, race teams, real estate offices, bars and what not. They wouldn’t be applying so much parity to the sport to spread the wealth of winning if they had a “golden boy.”
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