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UPDATE 2: NASCAR is denying a report in the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal that Nextel's sponsorship of its Cup Series is a five-year contract with an option for a five-year renewal. "As our organizations had announced last June, Nextel signed a 10-year deal with NASCAR,” NASCAR Director of Business Communications Andrew Giangola told today's Sports Business Daily. "The Winston-Salem Journal did not contact NASCAR or refer to the widely circulated news release about the agreement and got it wrong."(NASCAR Scene Daily Newsletter)(6-8-2004)
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MOORESVILLE, N.C., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's and NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Jimmie Johnson are "Racing for Relief" to generate funds for disaster relief efforts from Hurricane Katrina. Lowe's will donate $480 for every lap of the scheduled 250 laps that Jimmie completes this weekend at California Speedway. If Jimmie wins the race, Lowe's will donate an additional $4,800. In another show of support, Johnson personally has pledged $48,000 to the program. Additionally, Lowe's is matching customer contributions up to $1 million.
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NASCAR comments on 'Sprint Cup' in 2008 report: NASCAR will neither confirm nor deny that its Nextel Cup Series will carry the name Sprint beginning in 2008. "To my knowledge, no final decision has been made," said Ramsey Poston, NASCAR's managing director of corporate communications, refuting an ESPN.com report that the name change was imminent [reported for the 2008 season, no sooner]. But Poston added, "if that's the direction they want to go, we (NASCAR) would be supportive of that." Nextel officials were flying to California Wednesday afternoon, in preparation for Sunday's Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway, and not available for comment. However, USA TODAY learned that the topic of changing the NASCAR series name did not come up at Wednesday's corporate communications meeting. Changing the name would require substantial lead time and expense on the part of Sprint/Nextel, given the amount of signage and participating sponsorships involved.
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In 2003, Nextel and stock car racing organizer NASCAR had announced a sponsorship agreement by which NASCAR's top racing series would be called the Nextel Cup starting in 2004; the series was formerly the Winston Cup. Nextel was ... a major sponsor of the now defunct ChampCar team PacWest Racing, which was owned by Craig McCaw's brother Bruce. The cup has plans to be re-named the NASCAR Sprint Cup beginning in 2008, in co-ordinance with Sprint Nextel's announced plans to phase out the Nextel name by 2010.
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NASCAR Nextel champ Tony Stewart got a first look at his 1984 Cadillac Hearse recently, moments after a major overhaul was completed at the hands of the 12-volt-industry’s most prominent installers. The group, which convened for the first time ever on an installation job, included Gary Biggs from Harman, Steve Brown of Alpine, Dave “Fishman” Rivera of Metra Electronics and Keith “Reme” Rowland of Unique Autosports. This “dream team” was led by Will Castro, owner of Unique Autosports and host of “Unique Whips” on the SPEED Channel.
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NASCAR Nextel Cup, Indy Racing League, National Hot Rod Association, Champ Car World Series, Grand-Am Series, American LeMans Series, World of Outlaws and the lesser NASCAR series, including Busch and Craftsman Truck, are included in this edition. Season statistics, in most cases race-by-race, with focus on key events over the course of the season, are included by series. The annual Year in Photos is ... featured.
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