{"id":4863,"date":"2019-09-20T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2019-09-20T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T19:40:50","slug":"liberty-renews-sponsorship-of-nascar-driver-william-byron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"Liberty renews sponsorship of NASCAR driver William Byron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University and Hendrick Motorsports have reached a two-year agreement to renew sponsorship of driver William Byron and his No. 24 Chevorlet Camaro ZL1 team.<\/p>\n<p>The two primary sponsors covered the majority of Byron\u2019s Cup races, beginning in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to Liberty University, Byron will continue to carry primary sponsorship from Liberty in 12 Cup races annually in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamByron\/status\/1174730295985299457<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamHendrick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamHendrick<\/a> has signed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LibertyU<\/a> to a two-year extension in its role as primary sponsor of HMS\u2019 No. 24 Chevrolet driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamByron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WilliamByron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2796 Liberty will continue with 12 primaries in \u201920 and \u201921.<\/p>\n<p>\u2796 Primaries at top teams typically run around mid six figures per race. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8w1PeotgMg\">pic.twitter.com\/8w1PeotgMg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Stern (@A_S12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_S12\/status\/1174729883949424641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>William McComas Byron II, (born November 29, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Hendrick Motorsports. He won the 2015 NASCAR K&#038;N Pro Series East Championship and the Sunoco Rookie of the Year award in the 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. The following season he won both the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship and 2017 Sunoco Rookie of the Year. Byron also won the 2018 MENCS Sunoco Rookie of the Year award. Byron is currently the youngest full-time driver in NASCAR&#8217;s top series.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/content\/news\/Liberty-renews-sponsorship-of-NASCAR-driver-William-Byron-560802561.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University and Hendrick Motorsports have reached a two-year agreement to renew sponsorship of driver William Byron and his No. 24 Chevorlet Camaro ZL1 team.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=4863\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty renews sponsorship of NASCAR driver William Byron<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/byron.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1gr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}