{"id":16209,"date":"2015-05-06T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2015-05-06T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:28:42","slug":"napa-to-sponsor-chase-elliott-for-2016-cup-series-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/05\/06\/napa-to-sponsor-chase-elliott-for-2016-cup-series-season\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPA to sponsor Chase Elliott for 2016 Cup Series season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/chaseelliott.jpg\" alt=\"chaseelliott\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/chaseelliott.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/chaseelliott-594x395.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/chaseelliott-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nNAPA will sponsor Chase Elliott during the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott will run the entire 2016 series schedule as a rookie after competing in limited races this season. NAPA has sponsored Elliott in the Xfinity Series in each of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very exciting time for the NAPA Family,\u201d said Gaylord Spencer, senior vice president of marketing for NAPA AUTO PARTS. \u201cChase continues to represent our brand in a terrific way, and we couldn\u2019t be more pleased to take our association with him to the next level. We look forward to working with Chase, the No. 24 team and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TMXs6BaZqrc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elliott will transition to the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet next season taking over the seat which has been filled by four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so fortunate to work with a company like NAPA,\u201d said Elliott, who will compete for Sprint Cup rookie of the year honors in 2016. \u201cThey\u2019ve been behind me 100 percent, and I never take that support for granted. Continuing the relationship means a lot, and I know the entire team is focused on making it as successful as possible. It\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAPA will sponsor Chase Elliott during the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Elliott will run the entire 2016 series schedule as a rookie after competing in limited races this season. NAPA has sponsored Elliott in the Xfinity Series in each of the past two seasons. \u201cThis is a very exciting time for the NAPA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[128,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16209","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-chase-elliott","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16209"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}