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Originally Posted by 03mach69mach
When Nascar hands out restrictor plates & shocks to teams for cars they can affect a race. I have always felt like they (Nascar) through plates, shocks & tires, can affect (not stage) a race so that those teams with large sponsorship $$ on the line can have a shot at the win. Let's face it, there are only 6-8 cars, week in & out, that have a legitimate shot to win the race. The rest are running for a top 15 place. Look at the companies in the top 10
Dupont-(One of the worlds largest chemical companies)
Lowes- ( 1385 Stores in 49 states & Mexico)
Dewalt-(World wide brand of construction tools)
FedEX- (32.293 billion in revenue & one of the largest delivery carriers in the world)
AT&T/Cingular (Huge telecommunications company)
Kelloggs-(100 year old food manufacture...you probably ate one of the products today)
Home Depot- (2147 Stores 90 billion in sales)
Shell Oil
Miller Brewing
DirecTV
The above is your current top 10.
Big $$ and that is what Nascar is about.
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You are correct, it's about big $$$. However your theory about the top 10 is not accurate. There are HUGE companies not in the top 10 and many near the bottom. Here's a few that are on some of the cars.
Reutimann - Domino's Pizza 5.1 Billion in annual sales
Ragan - American Automobile Association
Earnhardt JR.- Budweiser (Anheiser Busch)
Riggs- Valvoline 1.3 Billion annual sales
Yeley- Interstate Batteries 13 Million batteries a year.
Gilliland - M & M's(Mars Corp.) 18 billion annual sales
Sorrenson - Target Stores - 23 billion annual US sales alone
Montoya - Texaco/ Havoline
Jarrett- United Parcel Service (Still the largest in the world)
Green - Best Buy
Rudd- Snickers(Mars corp.) 18 billion annual sales
Raines - DLP(Texas Instruments)
There are some heavy hitters above that have not been able to translate that to wins. From top to bottom it takes money and a lot of it.