{"id":14348,"date":"2014-08-13T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2014-08-13T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T17:12:36","slug":"mars-to-remain-with-kyle-busch-renews-contracts-with-nascar-joe-gibbs-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/08\/13\/mars-to-remain-with-kyle-busch-renews-contracts-with-nascar-joe-gibbs-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars to remain with Kyle Busch, renews contracts with NASCAR, Joe Gibbs Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/kylebusch2.jpg\" alt=\"kylebusch\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/kylebusch2.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/kylebusch2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mars has signed multi-year sponsorship deals with both Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR and Kyle Busch. This means the M&amp;Ms brand that joined up with Busch and Joe Gibbs in 2008 will stay with the No. 18 of Busch and not move over to speculated incoming teammate Carl Edwards like some rumors had stated.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBeing the M&amp;M\u2019s driver and representing Mars on and off the track has been one of the proudest accomplishments in my racing career,\u201d Busch said in a release, via NASCAR.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Added NASCAR Chief Operating Officer Brent Dewar, also via NASCAR.com: \u201cMars is one of the most recognizable brands in NASCAR and is among the best-in-class marketers in all of sports. More than two decades after entering NASCAR, Mars continues to help make race day more fun and we couldn\u2019t be more proud to see the company continue to re-invest in our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mars will continue as primary sponsor on the No. 18 Toyota of Busch. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The renewed contract with the sanctioning body will designate Mars as the Official Chocolate of NASCAR. Mars will continue to leverage its Official status to ensure its various chocolate brands remain a race day staple for millions of racing fans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars has signed multi-year sponsorship deals with both Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR and Kyle Busch. This means the M&amp;Ms brand that joined up with Busch and Joe Gibbs in 2008 will stay with the No. 18 of Busch and not move over to speculated incoming teammate Carl Edwards like some rumors had stated. \u201cBeing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[708],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-14348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}