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15. Dale Earnhardt – Daytona (2001) Dale Earnhardt, who is also known as “the Intimidator”, was considered NASCAR’s most popular driver. He was very aggressive and determined. He has his own style of driving, which has gained the admiration and approval of his diehard fans even up to this day. Earnhardt’s career ended when he met a tragic accident during the final lap of the Daytona 500 in 2001. During the race, Earnhardt’s was trying to block the other racers to stop them from catching his…

career in 1992. He started racing late models part-time in the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series and he competed there while still in high school. He made his debut at the Mesa Marin Raceway in 1995. In 1997, he signed a contract with Spears Motorsports. The same year, he raced for NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series. After a year, he won five races in Winston West Series championship. Harvick made his first NASCAR Busch Series debut on October 23, 1999. In 2001, he made his…

enjoyable race with high speeds and spectacular crashes. Motorsports fans from other series tend to identify better and have more loyalty to their favorite sponsor, team and driver. Other series such as NASCAR and NHRA Drag Racing sometimes seem to be more fan friendly and approachable than IRL. NASCAR and NHRA teams consist of drivers that have grown up racing in small towns across the country with fans following them since they began racing at such a young age. Another factor is the team is…

In 1996, New Belgium Brewery hired Geg Owsley as marketing director that developed a contest called "What's Your Folly?" to invite consumers to pitch their Beerdream (an adventure enhanced by New Belgium Brewery beers) to win immortal fame on a New Belgium Brewery mailable postcard or coaster Ferrell & Hartline, 2014, p. 362). The New Belgium Brewery team reacted positively to the presentation of the ad campaign with the exception of the suggested tagline "Follow Your Folly...Ours is Beer."…

Advertisers are constantly looking for new ways to evolve advertising and branch their products out to new groups of consumers and captivate a wider audience. This paper will study advertisements from four of the most popular beer brewing companies, Molson Canadian, Coors Light, Bud Light. Despite the obvious differences of each advertisement being from a different beer company, they all employ similar marketing strategies. All of the advertisements draw upon and appropriate subcultural elements…

There are many kinds of different cars in drag racing, such as Pro-stock, funny cars, top-fuel and stock cars. All of these cars are built for specific wants and needs, like the top-fuel car. This car is built to be the fastest car and the fastest accelerating car. The main thing about these things is that Drag racing and These cars have had many impacts or the sport of racing. Some impacts include the impact of different size tracks, restrictor plates, sponsors, and the sprint cup. These all…

Move Over NASCAR - Drone Racing Is Here You may have seen them in the sky over your house, or most likely heard about them on the news; now, drones are coming to a sports channel near you. ESPN has just released a statement announcing the first televised National Drone Racing Championship will take place on Governors Island in New York City, from August 5 - 7. This will be the first event in the newly signed contract with ESPN and the International Drone Racing Association (IDRA). The…

Another big problem with football are the head injuries that some players get when they are tackled. Brian Merchant from the website, Spoil Sport, talks about several sports that cause environmental damage. He lists sports that use fuel such as NASCAR, skydiving, boat racing and any sport that gets a large crowd such as soccer. If many people want to watch the sport it means that many people use fuel to go to where the sport is played and that is not good for the environment. Merchant also says…

other open wheel racing Popular in the United States with some patriotic spirit is the Indy Car Race where the drivers are mostly American. NASCAR organizes stock car racing which across the world is the most popular stock car racing and the additional American sentiment with mostly the American drivers make it the best overall in American racing industry. NASCAR surged ahead of Indy Car, an open wheel racing as mentioned earlier mainly because of the split caused in 1996 due to conflict between…

racecar driver. So, that’s why I am being a racecar driver. How fast do a racecar driver go well about 200mph. but being a racer I’m going to drive a lot of different cars. The Sporting News, though, says a NASCAR driver's base 2012 salary ranged between $500,000 and $10 million annually. Top-10 NASCAR drivers in 2012 most likely earned base salaries of at least $5 million per nine-month racing season. The website said cording to Jim Altemus of the Skip Barber Racing School, most Formula 1…