NASCAR: Corn Pone to Corn Powered
NASCAR’s history is well known to even the most casual observers. As a sport rooted in the mountains and the foothills of the Southern Appalachians it first received national promenence in 1965. That year saw Esquire magazine publish Tom Wolfe’s essay, “The Last American Hero”, about Junior Johnson’s Wilkes County expliots.
NASCAR as we all know has come a long way from the days of Junior performing “bootleg turns” behind the wheel of Ingle Hollow’s quickest whiskey hauler. Today’s NASCAR is hardly recognizable from the days of yesteryear.
With Daytona Speedweeks about to be unleashed for the ‘06 season Chevrolet may be offering a glimpse of things to come.
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“…it took France and NASCAR over 5 years to make the unleaded decision.
One final thought: Does anyone find it ironic Chevrolet starts this promotion in NASCAR after bailing out of IndyCar who will require its teams to switch to 100 percent ethanol in 2007, after runnning with an ethanol/methanol blend this year? Or is it just me?”
^Exactly why I do see this as an advertising stunt.
And why shouldn’t it be a advertising stunt? Chevy is getting promotion both for it’s trucks but also staking its claim on the ethanol bandwagon.
Give me one company or organization that doesn’t pull an “advertising stunt.”