Dharma Initiative to Sponsor #20--Phoenix, Az
Jones Racing today unveiled the truck the #20 team will run at Phoenix in next week's V8 Thunder World Championship. During a media session prior to shakedown testing at PIR, the mysterious Dharma Initiative were announced as the main sponsor for the Phoenix event, with Hanso Foundation and Oceanic Airlines also backing the team.
Team owner Andrew Jones said "The deal was done late for this race; with the worldwide economic crisis we were glad to be able to put sponsors on the truck, it has enabled us to launch our truck program. I don't know much about the Drama [sic] Initiative, they said something about doing a promotional visit to an island in the south pacific, I guess there could be worse places to visit. I asked for more information about them but they just told me to get lost! But, to be honest, I'm just happy to be able to race."
When asked about his chances at Phoenix, Jones said "Last time at PIR was a learning experience; we were fresh off a great run at Martinsville and had high expectations but we got more penalty points that evening than we did all this season! The track is great; there is time to be made up by the driver here, drafting isn't so much of an issue. We always seem to do well on the short tracks and the miles, hopefully we'll get a good run and stay out of trouble. I really hope we can have that Oceanic Airlines sticker on the quarter panel and not crash!"
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Andrew Jones - #77, shifts permitting.