Officials of Hendrick Motorsports have announced that they have signed driver Mark Martin to a contract extension. The two-year extension calls for Martin to continue driving the team’s #5 Chevrolet through the 2011 season. Martin began driving for Hendrick Motorsports at the start of the 2009 season after driving a partial schedule for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated during the past two seasons. The original contract called for Martin to only run one full-time season in the #5 and then go back to a partial schedule for 2010, but the team has had such a great year that Martin agreed to extend the deal to include all of 2010 and 2011. In 27 races with the team this season, Martin is currently ranked first in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings with five wins.
Many fans are accustomed to seeing the #5 car with Kellogg’s/CARQUEST sponsorship. However, the sponsor on the car will change beginning next season. Officials from GoDaddy.com, one of the world’s leading website domain registrars, announced that the company will sponsor Martin for a minimum of 20 races a year for the next two seasons. GoDaddy.com has sponsored Hendrick Motorsports’ #25 car driven by Brad Keselowski in a limited Sprint Cup campaign this season. They also sponsor Keselowski in JR Motorsports’ #88 Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series.
Although the contract extension is a big deal, what I want to talk about is the change in primary sponsorship for 2010. As good as it is for GoDaddy.com to come aboard the #5, I will find it hard not to think that Kellogg’s/CARQUEST should be on the car’s hood. I grew up watching the Kellogg’s car driven by Terry Labonte, so to have a new sponsor on the car next season will definitely be strange. What I am looking forward to is the bright green car that will make its debut at Daytona next season. If the paint scheme is any indication of how fast the car will run on the track, all other drivers should be worried because it’s a really cool looking ride. What is your opinion of this story?
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