USA Today Story: ” McDonald’s calls very premature any speculation that its decision to end sponsorship of Joe Gibbs’ NHRA team after this season is a sign the company has its eye on a McDonald’s Cup series should RJ Reynolds and NASCAR part company. We felt like we needed to bring more to the table with NASCAR, said David Paro, McDonald’s sports alliances director. We gave up a lot with our NHRA relationships, but with NASCAR’s geographical growth, we felt we needed to focus our communication and resources in that direction.” Not sure what this means for Bill Elliott in 1998(6-13-97)
