Contingency Sponsors

It seems there's less contingency decals on the front fenders of current Sprint Cup cars. Couldn't help but notice Regan Smith, with all the recent Darlington victory lane footage, his car's front fenders were essentially void of stickers. Don't the logos have to be displayed in order to receive contingency funding? So, are 'Cup racers declining to participate with the contingency sponsor program (an unlikely scenario) ,or are there just fewer of them?
updated by @bobby-williamson: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

There was an issued with Penske Racing once declining to display the contingency stickers. I know The King wouldn't but the Busch Beer stickers on his cars. I thought the deal was the product people asked about putting the stickers on the cars and it was up to the team owners to accept of decline. Perhaps Furniture Row just declined or perhaps they don't believe in Regan Smith. If the latter is the case, shame on them and to hell with their stickers.


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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.

There was some kind of 7-Eleven official NASCAR contingency award I used to do back in the 80s in Cup. NASCAR specified the exact placement of every official NASCAR contingency decal, but it was up to me to convince the car owner to participate in the program. I remember every single car owner but one would run my decal. The one exception was an independent owner/driverwho quite frankly was surprisinglybelligerent about it, considering I had always respected him. I really lost all respect I ever had for him because he acted so nasty to me about it. Turn around is fair play. When it came time to help drivers/owners, you could be sure who wouldn't be getting my help. That driver/owner later had a driver killed in his car at MIS when he rented it out. That pretty much ended his career in all respects. Nobody really wanted anything to do with him. I couldn't help but wonder why he had become such a jerk, but he really ended his own chances by taking such a nasty tack with folks over most things, including not "playing ball" and running contingency decals of folks posting significant purse additions. It was always was an interesting sidelight that the King wouldn't run in the Busch Clash, but I remember Richard saying he had promised his mother he would not display a beer decal on his car.


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