Bye Bye 76 Gasoline

[General Lee 01]

From Jayski:

 

76 Gasoline Gone at the end of 2003 in NASCAR: ConocoPhillips, owner of the 76 gasoline brand, said on Tuesday it will end its more than half century-long relationship with NASCAR auto racing at the end of the year. The familiar 76 gasoline logo -- an orange ball with the number 76 in blue at its center -- has been a fixture at NASCAR as "the official fuel of NASCAR." But 76's Houston-based parent company said it will end the sponsorship deal of more than 50 years by Dec. 31. ConocoPhillips said 76 will fulfill all of its contractual obligations, including supplying racing fuel at all Winston Cup events and at NASCAR's other circuits -- the BGN and CTS -- before returning its official fuel rights to NASCAR at year's end.(

[Elwood]

Wow.  I thought they would be supplying NASCAR with fuel forever.

[antig24]

That's pretty suprising. I wonder who will replace them...

[MountaineerTom]

From Jayski's

 

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Exxon-Mobil to be new official fuel of NASCAR?

 

The battle now over "the official fuel of NASCAR" is reported to be between Mobil and Exxon. Unocal's declining markets, primarily on the West Coast, has lessened that company's promotional viability, and last week NASCAR, after years of negotiating, finally bought out the contract. Unocal, when it was still Pure Oil, was one of the first major sponsors for NASCAR, and Unocal helped provide the financial backing for the France family to build Talladega.(Winston Salem Journal), NOTE: Exxon and Mobil merged a few years ago, so there is no 'battle', maybe a decision within the company, but rumor has Mobil being tagged.(2-8-2003)