Officials at Roush Racing issued a media advisory Sunday morning at NCS announcing a press conference for Thursday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The subject of the press conference, according to the advisory, is to introduce “a new multi-year primary sponsor for Kevin Lepage and the #16 team.” While Lepage nor officials of the Roush Racing operation would reveal the new sponsor, sources told goracing.com that the press conference would name Northern Light Technology as the team’s primary sponsor for at least the next two years. Northern Light also sponsors the #9 Roush BGN Ford with driver Jeff Burton(goRacing) also have an image of the car sent in by a reader, see the Paint Schemes Gallery for the image(2-27-2000) — UPDATE: hmm..a source tells me the sponsor is not Northern Light and the car will be purple, Yahoo? Harrah’s? — UPDATE: now hearing it’ll be an Internet site but something to do with Investing(2-28-2000) — UPDATE 3: New online service provider (OSP) and family website FamilyClick.com(TM) partners with Roush Racing to enter NASCAR racing this weekend at the Carsdirect.com 400 in Las Vegas. Kevin Lepage will drive the new FamilyClick.com #16 Ford Taurus for the 2000 Winston Cup series. As part of the partnership, Roush Racing will become an equity investor in FamilyClick.com, and FamilyClick will become the official Internet service of Roush Racing. For more info on FamilyClick.com check there site: www.FamilyClick.com. (Business Wire/Newstream) see an image of the car in my Paint Schemes Gallery, it is purple and white, but not an investment site(3-2-2000) — UPDATE 4: also of note – this is a multi-year deal to have FamilyClick.com serve as the primary sponsor on the #16. What is FamilyClick.com? It is a family-oriented website and Internet browser focusing on education and entertainment, and allows families to filter out offensive websites(3-3-2000)
