Elliot Sadler is scheduled to run at least one un-named NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in 2013, running the #81 Alert Energy Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. This new energy product, was recently introduced by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. The scheme is purple, orange-and-yellow.( lionelnascarcollectables.com .(3-26-2013) UPDATE: Wrigleys new Alert Energy Caffeine Gum will make its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut with Joe Gibbs Racing and driver Elliott Sadler on April 21 at Kansas Speedway. Sadler will pilot the #81 Alert Energy Camry there and at Talladega Superspeedway (May 5 and Oct. 20) for a total of three races during the 2013 race season. The #81 Alert Energy Camry joins an all-star lineup of Mars, Inc. and Wrigley sponsors at Joe Gibbs Racing including Doublemint gum, M&MS and SNICKERS throughout the 2013 season. ‘Im really looking forward to representing Alert Energy in the Sprint Cup Series’ said Elliott Sadler, driver of the #81 Camry. ‘Ive been lucky to have a long history with Mars, Inc. and am very excited about working with them again in launching this new product.” Alert will be available nationwide starting in April.( JGR )(4-5-2013) UPDATE – Sadler returns to the Sprint Cup Series at Kansas: Sundays STP 400 marks the first of three races in which Elliott Sadler will pilot the #81 Alert Energy Toyota Camry, with the two races at Talladega Superspeedway in May and October rounding out the schedule. Alert Energy Caffeine Gum is a new energy product available for adults 25 to 49 that lets people control the amount of caffeine they want ‘on-the-go.” The product launches nationwide later this month. When Sadler takes to the track for this weekends STP 400, it will be the first time he has raced a Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series, making him one of only a handful of drivers to have competed in NASCARs top series in a Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford and Toyota. Sadlers three-race schedule with Alert Energy marks the second time in his career he has raced for a brand thats a subsidiary of Mars, Inc. Sadler was sponsored byM&Ms, as well as other Mars brands, when he drove for former car owner Robert Yates in the Sprint Cup Series from 2003 to August 2006.(JGR), see images of the scheme on the #81 Team Schemes page .
