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God Willing We’ll Never See This Trump-Branded Race Car Again After This Weekend
God Willing We’ll Never See This Trump-Branded Race Car Again After This Weekend-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:28

If you thought you might watch a little racing this weekend to take a nice, relaxing break from the madness of the election, sorry! There’s yet Donald Trump-liveried car in NASCAR.

Driver Reed Sorenson will be running the No. 55 Premium Motorsports Toyota with a full Trump/Pence 2016 livery for this weekend’s Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway. If you’re wondering if this is a top team running for the title, have no fear, they’re in 39th place in the championship.

It is unclear if Trump paid the Premium Motorsports team for the full-car sponsorship, or if the team voluntarily decked the car out themselves, given that was the case with .

This very white car is bound to invoke horrifying flashbacks to bad election memes and uncomfortable conversations with the most politically insufferable members of your own family when you really just wanted to sit down and watch some racing.

NASCAR’s relationship with Trump definitely belongs in the “it’s complicated” category. Trump’s election-season comments on Mexicans were inflammatory enough to prompt NASCAR to its Camping World Truck Series banquet from a Trump property to a different location. Despite the series’ aversion to linking itself to a controversial candidate, individual members of the NASCAR community have endorsed the idea of a sentient bottle of spray-tanner leading the country, including NASCAR CEO .

Unfortunately for whoever works in NASCAR’s public relations department, it’s proven for the general public not to assume NASCAR as an organization backs Trump, particularly after France’s endorsement. On top of Trump’s trademark on his own mouth, are bringing forth allegations sexual assault and harassment against the candidate. In other words, this really isn’t the best look for a series that struggles to increase minority and female participation.

The car’s livery was funded by sponsors, who No. 55 car owner Jay Robinson declined to name to . ESPN writes:

Jay Robinson, who owns the No. 55 car, said one of his team sponsors wanted to put the scheme on the car and another sponsor joined the effort. Robinson: “We’ve got advertising space to sell. Our revenue stream is our NASCAR purse money and sponsorship money. (A couple sponsors) wanted to do it and we weren’t against it.”

Robinson also told ESPN that the car (unsurprisingly to us and/or anyone who knows the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area) received positive reactions at Texas Motor Speedway.

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