DENVER, Colo. (July 18, 2016) — The No. 78 Furniture Row Racing entry for Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will have a new paint scheme and a new primary sponsor.
The color of Truex’s Toyota Camry will be blue, the corporate hue for Auto-Owners Insurance, which announced earlier in the year that it will be the primary sponsor on Truex’s car for three Sprint Cup Series races. Along with Indianapolis, Auto-Owners Insurance primary schedule includes Darlington (S.C.) Raceway on Sept. 4 and Martinsville (Va.) Speedway on Oct. 30.
It’s only fitting that Truex’s No. 78 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota Camry will make its debut with Furniture Row Racing at the fabled Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval, one of the crown jewel races in the NASCAR schedule. A few weeks after the Indianapolis 500 celebrated its 100th year of the race in May, Auto-Owners Insurance celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Auto-Owners Insurance, based in Lansing, Mich., offers auto, home, life and business coverage for NASCAR fans and consumers through local, independent agents in 26 states.
“We are excited for Martin to debut the Auto-Owners colors at Indianapolis Motor Speedway,” said Peggy Bodinaku, assistant manager of advertising at Auto-Owners. “The No. 78 Furniture Row Racing team competes for a win each and every week, and we couldn’t be more excited for our first primary race of the season.”
Truex was equally as thrilled to showcase a new primary sponsor, “With Auto-Owners Insurance on board as a primary sponsor, the Brickyard 400 has just become an even more exciting race for our Furniture Row Racing team. I truly feel that we’ll have a good shot at driving the Auto-Owners Insurance Camry to Victory Lane and having our team join the Auto-Owners team in the kissing the bricks ceremony.”
About Auto-Owners Insurance:
Established in 1916, Auto-Owners Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and is the 17th largest property/casualty insurance company in the nation, based on written premium. Auto-Owners Insurance is one of 12 insurance companies in the United States to receive the highest rating possible, A++ Superior, by A.M. Best, which is a nationally recognized rating agency for insurance companies.
Auto-Owners is represented by more than 40,000 licensed agents in its 26 operating states. The company, which provides auto, home, business and life insurance to more than 4 million policyholders, is headquartered in Lansing, Michigan. Find your agent at auto-owners.com, and connect with Auto-Owners Insurance on Facebook and Twitter (@AutoOwnersIns)
