{"id":11234,"date":"2014-01-15T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T02:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2014-01-15T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T02:50:21","slug":"smithfield-foods-extends-partnership-with-richard-petty-motorsports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/01\/15\/smithfield-foods-extends-partnership-with-richard-petty-motorsports\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithfield Foods extends partnership with Richard Petty Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11235\" alt=\"aricalmirola\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/aricalmirola.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/aricalmirola.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/aricalmirola-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smithfield Foods has extended its partnership with Richard Petty Motorsports and the No. 43 Ford Fusion driven by Aric Almirola.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the two sides announced a three-year extension.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The company and its family of brands, including Eckrich, Farmland, Gwaltney, Nathan\u2019s and Smithfield, will return as primary sponsors of the No. 43 for 29 races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last season they were featured on the No. 43 car 25 times up from 15 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cI believe in the power of NASCAR and Richard Petty Motorsports. \u00a0My challenge to RPM was to help Smithfield connect our brands with the sport\u2019s 80 plus million fans,\u201d commented Larry Pope, President and CEO of Smithfield Foods. \u00a0\u201cOur results completely validate our participation.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Likewise team owner Richard Petty is looking forward to an extended partnership.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cWe are proud to see the goals of our partnership with Smithfield Foods exceed everyone\u2019s expectations,\u201d explained Richard Petty, co-owner of Richard Petty Motorsports.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDuring our first meeting with Smithfield, Larry was very candid in his belief that the NASCAR platform was perfectly aligned with their customer, but the only way he would invest in the sport was for us to prove the sport could produce growth for his brands.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithfield Foods has extended its partnership with Richard Petty Motorsports and the No. 43 Ford Fusion driven by Aric Almirola. On Wednesday the two sides announced a three-year extension. The company and its family of brands, including Eckrich, Farmland, Gwaltney, Nathan\u2019s and Smithfield, will return as primary sponsors of the No. 43 for 29 races [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[46,708,536],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-aric-almirola","tag-nascar","tag-richard-petty-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}