BIG News: Sunoco Has Been Selected As The Official Fuel Of NASCAR!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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While listening to the radio on the ride into work today, sandwiched between a commercial for a slip-n-fall attorney and the traffic report, came this 5 second spot:

Sunoco Has Been Selected As The Official Fuel Of NASCAR

I guess I musta missed the official announcement back on August 15th.

I should admit I consider car racing about as spectacular as watching my clothes spin around inside the washing machine at the laundromat. I don’t even know what the abbreviation NASCAR even stands for.

I’ll leave the old, “Is it a sport?” debate that has plagued mankind for the better part of the last century to race fans and the International Olympic Committee. I have a few more mundane questions that have come to mind since I heard this Earth-shattering news:

  1. So?
    Does this really mean anything to anyone?
  2. Selected, or paid for the rights?
    Steinbrenner’s smart enough to make Anheuser Busch & Adolph Coors battle it out every year with dollars, are NASCAR front-office types as shrewd?
  3. Will I be able to buy racing grade gasoline for my car at the Sunoco pumps anytime soon?
    Or will 112 octane blow my engine?
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National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

  1. Not really. The biggest difference is that the big signs at the entrance and end of pit road are blue and four-sided as opposed to big-ass orange balls. I haven’t heard one team mention a performance difference…

  2. Selected. Sonoco already had a relationship with NASCAR and the move was natural. From your link:

  1. I don’t think you want to do that. 110 octane racing fuel is leaded.
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Given the sponsor loyalty of race fans, to be named “Official Whatever of NASCAR” likely translates to millions of dollars for that company.

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I’m still waiting for the bird feeder filler modeled after the 12-gallon NASCAR fuel filler.