Report: Stewart secures sponsorship from Office Depot for potential Cup team
Quote selected text Published July 3rd, 2008 in NASCAR News
Tony Stewart has a few obstacles left before he officially can become a Sprint Cup team owner, but sponsorship isn’t one of them.
The two-time Cup champion has reached an agreement that would make Office Depot a primary sponsor on his car if he finalizes a deal with Haas CNC Racing, a source close to the negotiations said on Thursday.
Sources said an announcement could be made as early as the weekend of the July 27 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which is located about an hour from Stewart’s hometown of Columbus.
But before anything can happen Stewart would have to be released from the final year of his contact with Joe Gibbs Racing. JGR president J.D. Gibbs said on Friday at Daytona International Speedway that he remained in negotiations to extend Stewart’s deal past 2009.
Gibbs went so far as to say the organization could expand to four teams next season to make room for 18-year-old phenom Joey Logano.
He added that there has been no check offered from Chevrolet, which fields cars for Haas and Stewart’s Sprint car teams, to buy out Stewart’s contract as reports indicated might happen.
“What we’ve talked about is 2010,” Gibbs said when asked if there are contingencies for Stewart leaving. “We have no control over that. So we kind of put in place if that happens, what makes sense?
“We’ve talked about a lot of stuff, but that’s about all we’ve nailed down.”
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Whomever wrote this sure has their days mixed up. Today is Thursday if JD Gibbs commented on Friday (which is tomorrow) the writer of this article is a clairvoyant.
Erin wrote:
Heck, they’re probably like me… I’ve been thinking it’s Saturday since I got up a few hours ago!
Jeff wrote:
We were supposed to have our weekly races tonight this week instead of Saturday (we’re not thanks to mother nature), so to try and keep my body schedule right I kept on thinking yesterday was Friday and that today would be Saturday, but now that gets all thrown out the window since we got rained out….
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You mean they didn’t have enough money for Edwards but they do for Stewart?