Yeah you read this headline correctly, if today wasn’t already busy enough with racing in Daytona with the running of the Winn-Dixie 250 for the Busch Series race early this morning after being postponed due to rain last night and later tonight’s Pepsi 400, NASCAR has made the worst kept secret official.Earlier today, NASCAR held themselves a press conference to make the announcement, in 2008 the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series will now become the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and which of course included a brand new logo and some called the The SprintSpeed Million for fans. I will say the new logo looks good, its like a racetrack going around the outside of the name. For the NASCAR press release and to see the logo. (Read more...)
Let’s be honest, in the last 60 years NASCAR has only changed its title sponsor three times for this series, so what are fans going to think, NASCAR and Sprint think that after there research that most will be fine with it.
Thoughts for me are simple, this is not really a big deal as they might think. Fans know that this was going to happen sooner or later and life in the sport will go on, but from this time on, lets keep it the Sprint Cup Series for at least the next six years before we even have to think of a new name. I will say that it might throw a couple of people off here and there, but for the most part it works.
Basically NASCAR fans got use to the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series after it change back in 2004 and we will get use to the Sprint Cup Series, besides this is small compared to other things in the sport today.
Bottom Line, I’m cool with it, of course the only really big draw back for fans included is that now everyone has to buy new clothing, collectibles, hats and more with the Sprint Cup Series logo on it… maybe not, I still have a licence plate with Winston Cup Series on it, well I was going to have to buy a couple of new Dale Jr. items anyway now that he’s going to Hendrick, so I will combined that.
What about the Busch Series, new name anytime soon? Oh yeah, not a bad Busch Series race early this morning neither, congrats to Kyle Busch for holding off Harvick, just one problem Kyle, your car failed post-race inspection yet again, this time with the shocks and now we wait.
