{"id":3310,"date":"2012-09-02T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2012-09-02T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T18:05:26","slug":"tony-stewart-loses-sponsorship-with-office-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/09\/02\/tony-stewart-loses-sponsorship-with-office-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stewart Loses Sponsorship with Office Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stewart, driver of the No.14 Office Depot Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) will be without Office Depot as a sponsor in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is a big name for the news lately, last week it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/2012\/08\/25\/video-tony-stewart-throws-helmet-at-matt-kenseth\/\">helmet toss at Bristol<\/a> and this week a huge loss of his primary sponsor leaving the No.14 Team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Tony+Stewart+AdvoCare+500+fk5-1HhuptGl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"198\" \/>Office Depot is currently a co-primary sponsor for Stewart and the No.14 Team and has been since he created his own team in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Office Depot has notified SHR that they will not be renewing as the primary sponsor of the No.14 team,&#8221; SHR spokesman Mike Arning said. &#8220;However, SHR is in continued discussions with Office Depot regarding possible future roles the company could have with the team.&#8221; Asked what those future roles might be, Arning was unable to specify. &#8220;They want to be involved with Tony and the team, but are unsure how right now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Office Depot\u00a0 held the primary sponsorship in 22 of 38 races in 2012. Mobil 1, which holds primary sponsorship of the No.14 in the series&#8217; remaining 16 events, will carry the same investment in 2013, Arning said.<\/p>\n<p>Mindy Kramer, Senior Director of Communications for Office Depot said, &#8220;The changing business landscape warrants a realignment of priorities and resources&#8230;That being said, Tony Stewart has been an exceptional ambassador for our brand, and he has gone above and beyond in everything that he has done for our company. Being a part of his legendary 2011 championship run was a moment of tremendous pride for everyone at Office Depot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Office Depot leaving leaves a huge void for Stewart who now not only has to find sponsorship for the No.39 of team mate Ryan Newman but himself as well. <strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/2012\/07\/10\/u-s-army-to-pull-out-of-nascar\/\">Army to end sponsorship of NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kramer and NASCAR spokesman Jon Schwartz both said the two sides are still negotiating any future relationship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stewart, driver of the No.14 Office Depot Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) will be without Office Depot as a sponsor in 2013. Stewart is a big name for the news lately, last week it was the helmet toss at Bristol and this week a huge loss of his primary sponsor leaving the No.14 Team. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[637],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-tony-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","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=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}