This Bud's for ... ? Dale Jr., longtime sponsor to split

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No Budweiser for Junior Until After the Race
Published 7/13/2007 by webmaster at Nascar Blog
... “Honoring our commitments is important to us. The trade-off is missing an opportunity to bring Budweiser, a marquee brand synonymous with NASCAR and its fans, into the fold.” Source: Hendrick: Junior will have new sponsor next season ...

This Bud's Not For Junior
Published 7/14/2007 by Sheila Scarborough at FastMachines.com
... , "Anheuser-Busch is negotiating with Evernham Motorsports to possibly move the Bud sponsorship to Kasey Kahne's No. 9 Dodge next season." Apparently Dale, Jr. is OK with that, based on his quote in the ESPN article that, "Kasey would really have a lot of fun with that. I think they would enjoy Kasey, might bring him out of his shell a little bit." Budweiser is the "official beer of NASCAR" and also sponsors the Bud Pole award plus numerous aspects of the marquee Daytona 500 event. Meantime, if Dale Jr. takes Kyle Busch's Number 5 car, will we see him as the Kellogg's cereal guy? It will be hard to get my head around Junior wearing Tony the Tiger instead of the Bud crown. What will the Red Army become; the Snap, Crackle, Pops? In a David Caraviello piece on NASCAR.com , Junior indicates that "he'll still enjoy the product, saying, 'You don't have to pay me to drink a beer.'" Oh, well, ...