CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hendrick Motorsports has dropped longtime sponsor Hooters, saying the restaurant chain identified for rooster wings and skimpy wait-staff outfits couldn’t meet its monetary dedication to the NASCAR staff.
Hooters had sponsored the No. 9 automobile pushed by NASCAR Cup Collection champion Chase Elliott since 2017.
Hendrick Motorsports thanked Hooters for it contributions since approaching board “to our shared successes each on and off the monitor.” Nevertheless it mentioned the chain couldn’t pay its payments.
“Because of these unlucky and surprising circumstances, and regardless of intensive efforts on each side to establish a workable resolution, it grew to become obligatory for Hendrick Motorsports to finish the connection,” the staff’s assertion mentioned.
Hooters has lately closed greater than 40 areas across the nation, in response to a number of stories. Messages left for Hooters public relations agency Cookerly PR by The Related Press weren’t instantly returned.
“Like many eating places underneath stress from present market situations, Hooters has made the troublesome choice to shut a choose variety of underperforming shops,” the corporate mentioned, in response to Nation’s Restaurant Information.
Hooters broke into NASCAR within the early Nineteen Nineties, its brand on the automobile of late NASCAR collection champion Alan Kulwicki. It loved related success with Elliott, who took the drivers’ title in 2020.