{"id":18300,"date":"2018-04-10T12:09:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18300"},"modified":"2018-04-10T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:09:11","slug":"monster-energy-extends-deal-with-nascar-as-title-sponsor-of-cup-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/04\/10\/monster-energy-extends-deal-with-nascar-as-title-sponsor-of-cup-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Energy extends deal with NASCAR as title sponsor of Cup Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17813\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/monsterycup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/monsterycup.jpg 922w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/monsterycup-594x335.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/monsterycup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/monsterycup-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Monster Energy and NASCAR have finally agreed to an extension that will see the company sponsor the Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>The previous deal between Monster Energy and NASCAR was a two year sponsorship signed in December of 2016 which covered the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Under terms of that deal Monster Energy had the option of extending it&#8217;s sponsoring of NASCAR&#8217;s top series but in recent months the company had asked for extensions of the deadline for which it had to exercise that option.<\/p>\n<p>Monster Energy is believed to have paid $20 million a year to NASCAR as a sponsor following the departure of Sprint as the title sponsor of the Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>An official announcement is expected later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster Energy and NASCAR have finally agreed to an extension that will see the company sponsor the Cup Series. The previous deal between Monster Energy and NASCAR was a two year sponsorship signed in December of 2016 which covered the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Under terms of that deal Monster Energy had the option of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,976,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-18300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-monster-energy","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","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=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}