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Question
How can the U.S. Army sponsor a car? Aren't they using millions of our tax dollars to sponsor Ryan Newman this year. And I think there is also an Air Force car. How can they do that? Next there'll be an IRS car.
That's like asking how can the Army run a commercial on TV. It's advertising, meant to sell the Army to potential enlistees. Just like enlistment posters and enlistment centers, they all cost money (taxpayer's)that is used to get people to sign up. I imagine they will run a few less commercials and a few less enlistment centers and put their advertising budget into NASCAR, a sport that attracts young men and women, prime enlistment material.
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Expertise
8 year crew member, 25 year NASCAR historian with VAST collection of NASCAR data (stats, photos, old magazines, books, programs). I know all or can find all about NASCAR Winston Cup trivia, including stats, driver facts, race records, pit & inspection info, pics of old cars and drivers, etc.
Experience
Almost 40 year fan, 8 years on pit crew, high traffic NASCAR website, hundreds of old info sources including pics
Education/Credentials
Life: lived it for 8 years, been following it for almost 40 years, been to more than 200 races, worked shoulder to shoulder with many of the drivers and crewmen of the present and past, been quoted in magazines and newspapers, website listed in a book, had picture published in Nextel Cup Scene (was Grand National Scene back then). *Just quoted in a Las Vegas magazine last month (Feb/March '07) about the Vegas race*
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