NASCAR and Budweiser recently announced that the Budweiser Shootout, an exhibition race held during Speedweeks prior to the Daytona 500, will undergo a major format change starting with the 2009 race. For the past 30 years, the race sponsor extended invitations to those drivers who won a pole the previous season, or previous winners of the race. Now, the race will only be open to the top 6 teams from each manufacturer. The top 6 teams will be determined by the previous year’s points position.
It is quite obvious the underlying reason for this shift in how the race is run: Coors is now the sponsor of the Pole Award every week, whereas Bud held that sponsorship. The folks at Anheuser-Busch did not deny this, in fact, they cited it as the fundamental reason for the change.
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August 29, 2008 at 12:02 am
Nice post title, ya redneck.
August 29, 2008 at 4:42 am
Alan,
What do you mean – redneck? This is the way people think and talk in the northern areas of the east coast – we all wear “rednecks”, flannel, drink beer, eat lots of pasta, etc. Thought it would be the same in MN? After all, you are directly across the US map from us!