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pulled back a large tarp covering the No. 14 Chevrolet featuring his new sponsors for next season: Office Depot and Old Spice. There were just as many smiles when Carl Edwards uncovered the Aflac paint scheme that will replace Office Depot as the primary sponsor of his No. 99 Ford next season. But not everybody in the Sprint Cup, or even Nationwide Series and Truck Series, garage is smiling when it comes to sponsors. They are feeling the same economic crunch as the fans who pay more than $4 for a gallon of gasoline. Some are trying to compete with $5 million to $15 million less in sponsorship dollars than top teams at Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing and Richard Childress Racing. The No. 40 team of Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates recently had to shut down and lay off 70 employees (not including... [read full story]
