Nascar

tcmahoney · Aug 30, 2002

Originally posted by PSU92

It should be on NBC or TNT for the rest of the year.

Each car usually has a Primary sponsor & that is the name given car. Jeff Gordon drives the Dupont Chevrolet. Tony Stewart drives the Home Depot Pontiac etc.

There are all kinds of secondary sponsors for the teams. Plus all kinds of sponsors for NASCAR & the individual tracks & races.

They actually have a team of people that watches the tape of NASCAR telecasts & calculates how much time each sponsors logo appeared on the screen & how much that would have cost them if they had to pay for advertising. Its one of the big things that has pulled sponsors into NASCAR.

I've heard it costs $3-5 million or more to operate a 1 car team in NASCAR.
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And the sponsors find it to be worth it, because when NASCAR fans become fans of a certain driver, they'll make a point of shopping with his sponsors. If you're a Gordon fan, you go straight to the DuPont cans when it's time to paint the house. If you're a Stewart fan, you don't know where the local Loews' is even if it's next door, because you're going to go to the Home Depot across town.

Soccer fans might want to take notes.

ElJefe · Aug 30, 2002

Originally posted by FearM9
I'll watch NASCAR if I could ever find it on the damn boob tube. I swear it is always on a different station each week.
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NASCAR obviously needs Stock Car Sunday.

(You know, just like Soccer Saturday, except... Yeah, yeah, I know. It's always funnier when you explain it.)

The Gribbler · Sep 2, 2002

Originally posted by Mike Segroves

Can you. I bet you can.

Lets try.

I didn't have to wait long, did I?

3rd grade must have been the hardest 4 years of your life.
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At least I admitted that what i said was probably wrong, and didn't make an unnecessary crack at a good guy. And it was 3 years of 3rd grade, get it right.