I know this seems like a weird question, but it’s a legitimate concern for many of the sport’s marketers. Michael Smith, who among other things covers NASCAR at Sports Business Journal, wrote a piece this week looking at the changing face of the NASCAR sponsorship – namely the proliferation of fragmented sponsorship deals. He notes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Harry Gant’
Are Rotating Sponsors Affecting Your Interest?
May 28th, 2010 
Journo Meet NASCAR’s Appellate Court
January 14th, 2009 Journo So you’ve spent the entire off-season getting ready for Daytona. When you get there you make it through pre-race inspections, qualify and race. After you win the Great American Race, NASCAR pulls you into the garage for the obligatory post-race inspection. Uh-Oh. NASCAR finds that there were improper weights added to the car and they take away the [...]
Posted in NASCAR History, The Business of NASCAR 
Tags: cheating, Daytona, Harry Gant, Humpy Wheeler, NASCAR, NSCRC, penalties, Stock Car Racing Commission 
5 Comments »NASCAR History. Learn It.
April 16th, 2008 Journo Nothing irritates me more when I meet someone within the sport than when they don’t know anything about the history. Generally these are the people who fell ass-end into it (believe it or not it does happen). It boggles my mind how you can come into something like this and not know anything about where the sport [...]
Posted in NASCAR History Tags: Alabama Gang, Bobby Allison, Bud Moore, David Pearson, ESPN, Harry Gant, History, NASCAR, Pride of NASCAR, TNT No Comments »