{"id":29257,"date":"2016-08-05T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=29257"},"modified":"2018-08-16T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:36:14","slug":"papa-johns-pizza-delivers-sponsorship-to-leah-pritchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/papa-johns-pizza-delivers-sponsorship-to-leah-pritchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Papa John\u2019s Pizza Delivers Sponsorship to Leah Pritchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos:<\/strong> Courtesy of DSR<\/p>\n

Top Fuel racer Leah Pritchett and her car owner, Don Schumacher, announced a two-race sponsorship from Papa John\u2019s Pizza to cover the Seattle and Brainerd races on Friday before the first round of qualifying at the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals.<\/p>\n

John Schnatter founded Papa John\u2019s in 1984, taking a vacant broom closet in his father\u2019s tavern and some used pizza equipment to begin one of the largest pizza franchises in the world with over 4,900 locations in 50 states and 40 countries and territories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to add another quality ingredient to our Papa John\u2019s team with our sponsorship of Don Schumacher Racing and Leah Pritchett,” said \u2018Papa John\u2019s\u2019 chairman and chief executive office Schnatter.\u00a0 \u201cLeah\u2019s passion for racing is like my passion for pizza making, always looking for way to improve and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sponsorship will cover this weekend\u2019s race at the Pacific Raceways followed by the Lucas Oil Nationals in Brainerd in two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means so much to me, our team and the sport of NHRA drag racing,\u201d said Pritchett.\u00a0 \u201cWe are huge fans of Papa John\u2019s Pizza and are confident it will help fuel us to victory.\u00a0 My dream is one day to walk into a location and order a \u2018Leah\u2019s Nitro Pizza\u2019 on the Papa John\u2019s menu.\u00a0 One requirement– it has to be spicy!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur partnership with John is very, very exciting for DSR and the entire sport of drag racing,\u201d said Don Schumacher.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled for Leah.\u00a0 Papa John\u2019s support for the next two races gets her closer to clinching a spot in the Countdown, which would have all eight of our teams running for the NHRA Championship.<\/p>\n

DSR has won 281 NHRA National event titles and 14 World championships.<\/p>\n

FOX Network will air LIVE coverage of the Protect the Harvest NHRA Northwest Nationals on Sunday August 7, starting at 4 p.m. EDT. \u00a0Qualifying starts on Friday with coverage at 10 p.m. with the wrap up qualifying show starting at 2 a.m. on early Sunday Morning on FS1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Papa Johns has stepped in to offer sponsorship for Leah Pritchett and her DSR vehicle for the next two races.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,3399],"tags":[3815,720,574,1552,4763],"class_list":["post-29257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-nhra","tag-2016-nhra-mello-yello-drag-racing-series","tag-don-schumacher","tag-don-schumacher-racing","tag-leah-pritchett","tag-papa-johns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/16PapaJohnsDonSchumacher-Pritchett-Peter-Clifford-NHRA-President-Photo-Aug-5_Feature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-7BT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29266,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29257\/revisions\/29266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}