{"id":9309,"date":"2014-11-15T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T01:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2014-11-15T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T01:20:55","slug":"lucas-oil-joins-john-force-racing-as-official-oil-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lucas-oil-joins-john-force-racing-as-official-oil-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Oil Joins John Force Racing as Official Oil Sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/p>\n

Photos by Andrew Chen<\/p>\n

John Force Racing today announced a multi-year sponsorship with Lucas Oil Products. The announcement makes Lucas Oil the \u201cOfficial Oil of John Force Racing\u201d and the Corona, California based company will have signage on all the John Force Racing Funny Cars and the Top Fuel dragster as well as driver uniforms and race transporters beginning in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cForrest and Charlotte Lucas with their son Morgan and Lucas Oil Products are a perfect fit for John Force Racing. This partnership between two strong American families and companies is what makes this sport and country so great. Our two families have grown up together in this sport and we will have a strong future together,\u201d said John Force, CEO of John Force Racing. \u201cI had a great partner for almost 30 years with Castrol and they will always be part of our history but Lucas Oil is our future. I am excited about the opportunity to grow my company and keep racing for many years with the backing of Lucas Oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lucas<\/p>\n

Force is racing for his 17th championship this weekend at the 50th Auto Club Finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Force is a guy I have admired for many, many years. In my opinion he made Castrol oil in this country. The fact that he became available was shocking to me. I see him partnering with us and it will be a huge economic boost for Lucas Oil around the world. It will be good for John Force Racing because it is more stability and I see this as a win-win situation. It will also be good for NHRA drag racing because it keeps John racing and we don\u2019t have any intentions on leaving so it should be good for everybody.\u00a0 Hopefully all the fans will keep coming back and using Lucas Oil,\u201d said Forrest Lucas, Founder and CEO Lucas Oil Products.<\/p>\n

\"Lucas<\/p>\n

This is the second major sponsorship announcement for John Force Racing. In Las Vegas JFR announced PEAK anti-freeze and Blue Def as a primary sponsor for John Force for the majority of the races in 2015. Today\u2019s announcement is another major step forward to financially strengthening the winningest Funny Car team in NHRA history. In the coming weeks John Force Racing plans a number of additional announcements leading up to the 55th<\/sup>\u00a0annual Circle K NHRA Winternationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Force Racing today announced a multi-year sponsorship with Lucas Oil Products.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":9311,"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":[3465,3399],"tags":[424,77,631,38,75,423,598,179,440,73],"class_list":["post-9309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-nhra","tag-brittany-force","tag-courtney-force","tag-forrest-lucas","tag-funny-car","tag-john-force","tag-john-force-racing","tag-lucas-oil","tag-morgan-lucas","tag-robert-hight","tag-top-fuel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC_4369.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2q9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9309\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}