FCC Sponsor NASCAR Driver, David Gilliland?

Yes ladies and gentlemen, its your tax dollars at work!! Better root for ole ‘24′ to win! If he does maybe we will get some of the entry fee back. Or is this a Paulson-Martin deal where we get the fuel tank and rear axle in exchange for a Fed bailout of a NASCAR driver? –

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced that the Federal Communications
Commission will sponsor the NASCAR No. 38 entry with driver David Gilliland for a total of three races in the remaining NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as part of its Digital Television (DTV) outreach. The FCC DTV sponsorship will debut at Martinsville Speedway on October 19th followed by the races at the Phoenix International Raceway on November 9 and Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 16.

It is the leading spectator sport in the country. Seventeen of the top 20 highest-attended sporting events in the U.S. annually are NASCAR events, with average attendance topping 125,000 per event for the 36 point races during the 10 month season. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is the number-two-rated regular-season sport on television with nearly 8 million viewers tuned in weekly, and features 36 races at 22 different tracks across the country.

Me, I love race car driving, when I lived in Florida we made a trip to Daytona a mandatory part of the years partying! But I love having my tax dollars spent wisely even more. I don’t see how supporting David Gilliland, ‘24′ in the pic above helps get out the DTV effort. DTV is NOT a brand like STP, Shell or BP. So in essence there is no uptick in awareness because of it.

David, I wish all the best on the circuit Bud. But I would love you even more if you sent my tax dollars back, OK?

FCC notice of the sponsorship.