Fifth Third Bank to partnerwith Roush Fenway Racing and Matt Kenseth for
Sprint Cup Series Sponsorship
Cincinnati – Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) today announceda
multi-year marketing partnership with Roush Fenway Racing, beginning
thisseason with four races as the primary sponsor of Matt Kenseth’s No.
17 FordFusion in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. A similar number of races
for thefollowing years will be announced at a later date.
Fifth Third will be theprimary sponsor of Kenseth’s Ford at four Sprint
Cup Series races in 2012 including:
-Sprint All Star Race in Charlotte, NC on May 19
- Quaker State 400 in Sparta, KY on June 30
- Crown Royal’s “Your Hero’s Name Here” race in Indianapolis, IN on July
29
- Pure Michigan 400 in Brooklyn, MI on August 19
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BROOKLYN, Mich. (April 4, 2012) – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Matt Kenseth, Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kyle Busch concluded Goodyear Tire testing at Michigan International Speedway on Wednesday. The session was the second day for the test.
Speeds were very quick. Montoya said minimum speed was 189 mph, but cars were going above 215 in the straightaways.
The test is a result of the track’s repave, finished last November. This was the fourth repave – 1977, 1986 and 1995.
PHOTO CREDIT: Todd Davis, LAT USA
No Surprise, It’s Hendrick Vs. Roush In Fontana
Will this be the weekend Rick Hendrick and company get its milestone 200th victory? History is on the side of HMS, which leads all organizations with nine wins at Auto Club Speedway. HMS newcomer Kasey Kahne won in Fontana in the fall of 2006 as the driver of Ray Evernham’s Dodge.
That 200th milestone will be out of reach if Roush Fenway Racing has anything to say on the subject. RFR drivers have won seven times at the Southern California track most recently in the spring of 2009 with Kenseth. All three of the team’s current drivers have victories at Auto Club headed by Kenseth’s three trips to Victory Lane. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings leader Greg Biffle has one win (2005) as does Carl Edwards (2008).
Matt Kenseth. Under the radar no longer.
His second Daytona 500 victory, a straight-up, I’m-faster-than-you performance in arguably the most unique of the race’s 54 editions, confirms the popular Wisconsin veteran’s status among the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series elite competitors in the current era – and arguably in any era.
We should have known it all along – although Kenseth, like many racers from his home state, has always raced hard but with humility.
His post-race reaction? Typical: “I wasn’t expecting to win when I woke up this morning,” said Kenseth.
That said, Kenseth has won a championship (2003), two Daytona 500s and 22 times overall. Those victories have come in 10 different seasons beginning in 2000 – his first full campaign with the Roush Fenway organization, his “home” for all but one of Kenseth’s 437 starts.
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