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Tony Stewart officially has sponsors for 2009, but he wouldn't divulge much else in a press conference Friday morning in Indianapolis.
The conference was held across the street from Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Literally, the media had to walk across five lanes of traffic outside the speedway to get to it. Talk about a funny sight...) and Stewart announced that Office Depot and Old Spice would be the primary sponsors of the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet in 2009.
Of course, if you were a regular FanHouse reader, you would have known that already.
Additionally, Stewart shed some light on how the rest of the "new" team is coming along for 2009, slipping in that they are looking at two drivers for the other car on the SHR operation. That car will take the No. 4 -- made famous by Sterling Marlin and Morgan-McClure Racing in the early 90's by winning back-to-back Daytona 500's.
The No. 4 is special to Stewart because that was his first number in racing when he started in go-carts as a young boy. However, the No. 14 is an homage to Stewart's racing hero, 4-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt.
As I sat there this morning, one thought that came to mind was how incredibly similar the two drivers are. Essentially, Stewart is a modern-day Foyt nearly to a T. Both drivers excelled in many different disciplines of racing and, unfortunately, both drivers have a nasty side that occasionally rears its ugly head -- like it did for Stewart Thursday night at a USAC Midget race in Indianapolis.
Stewart also had an interesting quote about the how his current team, Joe Gibbs Racing, switched from Chevrolet to Toyota in 2008, saying that the "manufacturer switch wasn't a big factor, but it was a factor" -- indicating for the first time that he wasn't the biggest fan of Toyota. Stewart also called coming back to Chevrolet a "natural fit" that "just made sense".
The move is also indicative of the current climate of the American economy, as Old Spice and Office Depot are splitting the sponsorship 60-40, with Office Depot taking the larger amount of the races.
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