The Plimpton & Hills sponsored car David Ragan will race this weekend at Dover International Speedway (Courtesy: Front Row Motorsports)
A little bit of Nutmeg State flavor will be riding along with David Ragan when he hits the track this weekend for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.
Hartford based Plimpton & Hills will serve as the primary sponsor on Ragan’s No. 34 Front Row Motorsports ride at Dover.
“We’ll have a new sponsor with us at Dover, which is pretty cool,” Ragan said in a release. “Plimpton & Hills is a family-owned company that’s been around for over a hundred years, selling plumbing and heating and cooling products. And they have a partnership with State Water Heaters, which Front Row Motorsports has worked with, so you could sort of call us all ‘extended family.’ We’re happy to have them at the track and on our No. 34 Ford.”
Ragan has 16 career Sprint Cup Series starts at Dover.
“Dover is an intense racetrack,” Ragan said. “It’s similar to Bristol, which is very fast and you don’t have much chance to breathe. Dover is very much the same way. You’re in the corners a lot, the straightaways have a lot of banking, and it’s just very fast. Even though we’re not at 210 miles-an-hour speed like we saw at Michigan, it feels fast. You can feel the acceleration of the car falling into those corners. Dover’s an awesome racetrack. If you run well, you feel like you’ve fought a good fight all day long.”
I always think it’s sad when a regional distributor chooses to sponsor a second rate Cup team in lieu of supporting a regional or weekly short track team, race, or website(!) in their area, but it’s their choice on how they want to spend their marketing dollars. I were a plumbing contractor with a racecar (like JP00) I would certainly leverage my position with a wholesaler who chose to do something like this…
they did not pick the team… the deal was set up thru state water heaters an associate sponsor of frm