Off Season Sponsor Additions

[Mad_Hatter]

Seeing as there have been quite and the are seemingly more to come.

http://media.racer.com/images/2011/02/02/ppg_no._6_car_143870.jpg



Feel free to add...

[Mad_Hatter]

http://media.racer.com/images/2011/02/02/guidepoint_no._3_car_143874_143877.jpg

I guess a picture says a thousand words. :bandit:

http://www.racer.com/penske-reveals-more-sponsors-paint-schemes-for-indycar/article/195539/

[Mad_Hatter]

http://media.racer.com/images/2011/01/25/9_142084.jpg


http://www.indycar.com/news/show/55-izod-indycar-series/41009-entergy-to-back-hvm-de-silvestro-in-2011/

[Mad_Hatter]

http://indycar.com/news/show/55-izod-indycar-series/41067-milwaukee-race-lands-refreshing-sponsor/


http://www.indycar.com/news/show/55-izod-indycar-series/40660-auto-club-to-sponsor-castroneves/

[NaBUru38]

I don't understand these threads. I would never find one like this about F1, sports car racing or rallying. Who cares about sponsors other than they pay the bills and some make nice liveries?

[call_me_andrew]

The best way to support your favorite driver or team is to buy their sponsors' products.

[Mad_Hatter]

I don't understand these threads. I would never find one like this about F1, sports car racing or rallying. Who cares about sponsors other than they pay the bills and some make nice liveries?


That is the entire concept.

Heaven forbid you'd see something different in an entirely different forum...

[beachbum]

I don't understand these threads. I would never find one like this about F1, sports car racing or rallying. Who cares about sponsors other than they pay the bills and some make nice liveries?Why do you think they pay the bills? It isn't philanthropy. It is advertising, and the whole point is to get people to talk about them and their products. If they don't get that, they get no ROI and they go away, as does the racing that depends on them for support.

[NaBUru38]

Sorry! I'm from a different (racing) culture.

[garyshell]

Sorry! I'm from a different (racing) culture.


And just what sort of "racing culture" might that be that makes it so tough to understand the importance of sponsors evn in F1, sports car and rallying?

Gary

[Don Capps]

I don't understand these threads. I would never find one like this about F1, sports car racing or rallying. Who cares about sponsors other than they pay the bills and some make nice liveries?


Sorry! I'm from a different (racing) culture.

I think that is much more a matter of simply not paying attention than anything else; then again, F1 fans in particular rarely take notice of such things, rarely making the connection between sponsorship and what they watch on the track, being entirely clueless as to the significant power that sponsors have on the sport -- and have had for many decades now.

Given the direction that the IRL or IndyCar or whatever they are calling it these days continues to be headed, there are many reasons that the issues related to sponsors sits foremost in the minds of many who follow this series. Of course, that there is a seriously wound series that is but a shadow of what once was makes these sorts of things more akin to a deathwatch than anything else at times. Having burned many a bridge behind it, the future of this series still a big question mark. That the Delta Wing was rejected for what is essentially simply more of the same-ol' -same-ol' (sorry, but the entire "aero kit" deal is something only a dying organization could convince itself as being "new and better) rather than something that could have been forward-thinking is rather typical of this now niche sport.