{"id":11333,"date":"2014-01-29T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11333"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:12:39","slug":"hendrick-still-seeking-long-term-sponsor-for-dale-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/01\/29\/hendrick-still-seeking-long-term-sponsor-for-dale-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrick still seeking long-term sponsor for Dale Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11334\" alt=\"daleearnhardtjr\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/daleearnhardtjr.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/daleearnhardtjr.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/daleearnhardtjr-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rick Hendrick said on Tuesday during the NASCAR Media Tour that he was still actively searching for a long-term sponsor for the No. 88 Chevrolet driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve talked to a lot of people,\u2019\u2019 Hendrick said. \u201cI want a long-term deal that fits and isn\u2019t a conflict with the other guys.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The National Guard will be on Earnhardt&#8217;s car for 20 races. PepsiCo will feature brands on the No. 88 car for five races. That leaves 13 races in which Earnhardt&#8217;s car does not currently have sponsorship for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will listen to anybody, and we\u2019re always looking, but there\u2019s no like, golly we\u2019ve got to find somebody,\u2019\u2019 Hendrick said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Analysis:\u00a0<\/em>Earnhadt Jr. has been NASCAR&#8217;s most popular driver for the last decade and the price tag for sponsoring his car reflects that. Hendrick is not about to sell advertisement space for one offs. They found sponsorship last year and will do so again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Hendrick said on Tuesday during the NASCAR Media Tour that he was still actively searching for a long-term sponsor for the No. 88 Chevrolet driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. \u201cWe\u2019ve talked to a lot of people,\u2019\u2019 Hendrick said. \u201cI want a long-term deal that fits and isn\u2019t a conflict with the other guys.\u2019\u2019 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[170,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-11333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-front","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333","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=11333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11333"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}