CONFIRMED: Texaco-Havoline Will Not Return in 2009

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2009 schedules are out and more news….
Published 8/19/2008 by Richard Ginn at The Pit Stop
... Motorsports-Soapbox says that Texaco-Havoline is not going to be back next year as a sponsor for Juan Pablo Montoya. ...

Musings from the Marbles
Published 8/20/2008 by Snafam (noreply@blogger.com) at snafam
... Texaco will be leaving the sport at the end of the year. It will be sad for a large group of Robert Yates fans, who associate Texaco-Havoline with Davey Allison. I can certainly understand, that in these economic times, Texaco may not have received great value for their money in recent years. However, the exit of this iconic brand may have great impact on the future of Ganassi racing. The OTHER sponsor of the 42, Wrigley, is facing ...

Dark Clouds Get Darker for Ganassi Racing
Published 8/20/2008 at FanHouse
Filed under: Juan Montoya, Chip Ganassi Racing, Sprint CupChip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates has to be scrambling to come up something -- anything -- in the way of sponsorship for 2009 with Wednesday's news about the sponsor of Juan Pablo Montoya's No. 42. From Sirius Speedway's blog, "The Motorsports Soapbox": Sirius Speedway has learned that Chevron-Texaco will not return as sponsor of Juan Pablo Montoya's #42 Dodge next season. [...] Texaco-Havoline will not move to another ...

NASCAR Teams looking at Cha-Cha-Changes
Published 8/22/2008 by Steve Wronkowicz at On Pit Row
... Speaking of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates; Chevron-Texaco dropped their little bomb this week that they will no longer be supporting the #42 car of Juan Pablo Montoya after this season.  It seems the Texaco brand is going the way of DeSoto, and they will be investing their advertising monies in a different direction.  Sirius Speedway/Motorsports Soapbox is also reporting that the Target sponsorship that has been gracing the #41 driven by Reed Sorensen may be gone as well.  Chip will have to do some serious sponsor work in the off season to ...