Sponsor Shuffle for 2008
It’s that time of year already. The 2007 isn’t even over yet, but things are already string to fall into place for 2008. There have been a lot of announced driver moves and now the sponsors are starting to switch teams as well.
Of course we all know that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be driving the #88 for Hendrick Motorsports next year and he will have both Amp Energy Drink and the National Guard as primary sponsors on his Chevy. The guy he’s replacing at Hendrick, Kyle Busch, is leaving to drive the #18 car for Joe Gibbs Racing. His primary sponsor next year will be M&Ms, which means the company has defected from the Robert Yates Racing #38 piloted by David Gilliland. There has been no word who will sponsor either of the Yates teams for the 2008 season.
The latest unconfirmed rumor is that Best Buy will be leaving the #66 Haas CNC Racing team at the end of 2007 and jumping over to another team. While it has not been officially announced, it is expected they will join a different Dodge team and most likely at Gillett Evernham Racing. Since it was announced earlier this year that Kasey Kahne will be driving the #9 Budweiser Dodge for 2008, it is expected Best Buy will be the primary sponsor for Elliott Sadler’s #19 Dodge. In fact, Elliott has allegedly already filmed a commercial for the company.
What do you think? Who will end up with Best Buy? Will any other sponsors make a jump? Let me know in the comments section below.
NASCAR, NASCAR Sponsors, NASCAR Best Buy team
November 21st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
[...] showcase what they can do for sponsors and try to ink deals for their cars. Some new sponsor deals have already been announced during the 2007 season, like Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s new deal with Amp Energy Drink and the [...]
December 7th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
[...] Kyle ended up finishing fifth in the Nextel Cup point standings for 2007 in his last year with Hendrick Motorsports. Busch announced earlier in the year he would be moving over to drive the #18 M&Ms Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2008. [...]