Bob Pockrass
FOX Motorsports Insider
Marcus Ericsson will carry a FOX Sports activities livery this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports activities Automobile Course.
As a nod to this being the primary yr with all INDYCAR races on FOX, Andretti International and FOX partnered on the No. 28 automobile for the race Sunday (1 p.m. ET on FOX).
Ericsson has a robust efficiency historical past at Mid-Ohio with a second, two fifths and a sixth amongst his previous 5 begins on the two.258-mile highway course. He presently sits twenty first within the championship standings.
“I’m proud to hold the FOX colours at Mid-Ohio this weekend,” Ericsson mentioned in a information launch. “They’ve been an important addition this season, and it has been refreshing to see the protection they’ve dropped at INDYCAR.
“I’m trying ahead to representing them on monitor and having a robust weekend.”
The scheme has a black base with the FOX blue-and-white logos. The message “The Quickest Racing On Earth” can also be outstanding on the automobile.
“FOX Sports activities has already confirmed to be a incredible broadcast companion for the INDYCAR SERIES all through the primary half of their debut season, and we’re proud to showcase that relationship in a novel means with the FOX Sports activities livery for Marcus this weekend in Mid-Ohio,” Andretti International CEO Jill Gregory mentioned.
Followers will doubtless see FOX Sports activities robotic Cleatus on the grounds at Mid-Ohio.
“FOX Sports activities is thrilled to be on board the No. 28 FOX INDYCAR Honda with Marcus Ericsson this weekend at Mid-Ohio to proceed to convey our INDYCAR partnership to life,” mentioned Drew Panaro, FOX Sports activities vice chairman for sports activities model partnerships.
“FOX has constructed an distinctive sponsorship advertising relationship with Andretti International in our inaugural season of INDYCAR protection, and we owe a particular due to Jill Gregory and [CMO] Doug Bresnahan for the chance to additional ingrain FOX Sports activities because the vacation spot for the ‘quickest racing on earth.’”
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Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent many years overlaying motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seaside) Information-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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