{"id":13823,"date":"2009-06-04T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2009-06-04T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T21:58:19","slug":"automobile-nascar-tight-sponsor-market-weakens-silly-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=13823","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Tight sponsor market weakens &#8220;silly season&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was May 2007 when reports of Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8217;s well-choreographed move to Hendrick Motorsports surfaced. It was April a year ago when Tony Stewart&#8217;s intent to buy a team was revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These early season blockbusters set the NASCAR dominoes in motion, leading to a flurry of driver and sponsor changes that shook up the sport each of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But as the 2009 calendar flipped past April and May, team owners and marketers found themselves still shopping for companies to fill out this year&#8217;s sponsor lineup, in addition to selling for 2010&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/business\/06\/03\/sponsor.market\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/business\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was May 2007 when reports of Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8217;s well-choreographed move to Hendrick Motorsports surfaced. It was April a year ago when Tony Stewart&#8217;s intent to buy a team was revealed. These early season blockbusters set the NASCAR dominoes in motion, leading to a flurry of driver and sponsor changes that shook up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13824,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/13824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}