{"id":23169,"date":"2020-01-27T19:27:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T00:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23169"},"modified":"2021-03-03T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:22:19","slug":"unifirst-sponsoring-chase-elliott-for-three-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/01\/27\/unifirst-sponsoring-chase-elliott-for-three-races\/","title":{"rendered":"UniFirst sponsoring Chase Elliott for three races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23168\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243.jpg\" width=\"1020\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243-594x323.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243-768x418.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243-696x379.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/01\/img_0243-772x420.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CONCORD, N.C. \u2013\u00a0UniFirst Corporation, a North American leader in providing customized work uniform programs, corporate attire, and facility service products, will serve as a primary sponsor on the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE with driver Chase Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, UniFirst <a href=\"https:\/\/pit-lane.co.uk\/\">racing clothing<\/a> will begin a three-race primary sponsor with its updated green corporate logo adorning the No. 9 Chevrolet on March 8 at Phoenix Raceway, May 16 at the All-Star Race and Sept. 27 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In addition, UniFirst will be a full-season associate sponsor of the No. 9 team.<\/p>\n<p>UniFirst will continue to serve as the Official Workwear Provider of Hendrick Motorsports, supplying work clothing and uniforms to the team and sister company Hendrick Automotive Group, the largest privately held retail automotive organization in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Hendrick Motorsports partner, all of us at UniFirst have been closely following Chase throughout his career and we\u2019re incredibly impressed with his long list of accomplishments,\u201d said Adam Soreff, director of marketing and communications for UniFirst. \u201cMost notably, his performance last season having won three races, four poles, and the most popular driver accolades for the second year in a row! To say we\u2019re thrilled to have him as our driver is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of NASCAR fans are anticipating an exciting 2020 NASCAR season with Chase behind the wheel and all of us at UniFirst can\u2019t wait to see our dynamic new race car paint scheme that is sure to impress on the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2015, Elliott, 24, has earned four consecutive NASCAR Cup Series playoff berths and six race wins. The Dawsonville, Georgia, native will make his 150th Cup Series career start when he takes the green flag at the DAYTONA 500 on Feb. 16 (2:30 p.m. ET on FOX). In addition, NASCAR\u2019s two-time most popular Cup Series driver has eight pole positions and 74 top-10 finishes in NASCAR\u2019s top division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to having UniFirst join the No. 9 team this season,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cWe are very fortunate to have such a great lineup of partners, and I know they will be a great addition. Those UniFirst colors are going to look great at Phoenix, Charlotte and Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hendrick Motorsports\u2019 partnership with UniFirst began in 2016 and runs through 2023. The company was a three-race sponsor of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONCORD, N.C. \u2013\u00a0UniFirst Corporation, a North American leader in providing customized work uniform programs, corporate attire, and facility service products, will serve as a primary sponsor on the No. 9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE with driver Chase Elliott. In 2020, UniFirst racing clothing will begin a three-race primary sponsor with its updated green corporate logo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23168,"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-23169","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\/23169","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=23169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23169"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}