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Best Buy to sponsor US F1 team?

It is believed that Best Buy is interested in the new US F1 team headed by journalist Peter Windsor and technical expert Ken Anderson. Its chief marketing officer Barry Judge revealed on his Twitter page that he recently met with team officials. “Thoughts on how a Best Buy partnership would help our entry into Europe?” he wrote. Best Buy recently announced plans to open stores in the UK and other European countries for the first time in 2010 while also eyeing major British brands such as Comet and Currys, hence his European reference.(F1-Live.com), if Best Buy just join the F1 team, no word how or if it would affect the sponsorship of the #19 Richard Petty Motorsports Dodge that Elliott Sadler drives.(8-10-2009)