United Nitro Funny Cars, the NHRA Heritage Series, and Nostalgia Drag Racing in general are some of the hottest and most fun nitro drag races you’ll find anywhere. Most teams competing in any of these series have found that coming up with sponsorship is a pretty hard thing, and so teams make due with what they have and race for the fun of it. This is arguably one of the things we love most about this sport, but lets face it there are varying levels of depth with regards to car owner’s pockets. We’ve long said that if just a few big companies would get behind racers and the series themselves then the entire nostalgia style drag racing community would benefit. This is why we are so excited that the Peck Racing “The Instigator” Funny Car has gotten such a sponsorship in 2020.
Peck Racing’s “TheInstigator”, QuoteWizard to partner in 2020.
In a major announcement, QuoteWizard has come to an agreement with Peck Racing to become its primary sponsor in 2020.
December 20th, 2019, Seattle, WA – Peck Racing, a Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car team which competes in the NHRA Heritage and UNFC series, announced today that it will be partnering with QuoteWizard, an online Insurance marketplace as its primary sponsor for the 2020 season.
“PeckRacing is beyond thrilled to join forces with QuoteWizard in the 2020 season. We are even more excited about introducing the NHRA fan base to QuoteWizard’s Insurance marketplace. Our fans and followers will quickly realize there is a lot of money to be saved when using QuoteWizard to shop for your Auto, Home, Life, Health and Medicare insurance”, said Michael Peck Jr., a part owner of Peck Racing. “We had a great debut season in 2019. Our partnership with QuoteWizard in 2020 will allow us to run a full and competitive schedule, something we are very excited about. I cannot thank Scott and the entire QuoteWizard organization for this opportunity. This marketing campaign will not only touch on the traditional aspects of a motor sport marketing deal but will allow us to test the boundaries of the digital marketing space using “TheInstigator” as a key driver. We want to revolutionize how sponsors begin to look at motorsport marketing and we have a few tricks up our sleeves to do so.”
The traditional orange paint scheme that has accompanied “TheInstigator” will now be replaced with a full wrap showcasing QuoteWizard. Additionally, QuoteWizard will use select events during the season to host clients and emplyees pit-side, along with working directly with Peck Racing’s social media presence to promote its vast insurance product offerings and savings.
“QuoteWizard is extremely excited to be partnering with Peck Racing in 2020,” says Scott Peyree, President of QuoteWizard. “PeckRacing will provide QuoteWizard a fresh/unique audience on and off the track to showcase its Insurance Marketplace. I believe NHRA fans and racers alike will benefit from the cost savings our product can provide.”
QuoteWizard.com, LLC owns and operates an insurance comparison online marketplace. The company helps consumers navigate the insurance landscape and enable easy comparison shopping. It offers personalized quotes on auto, home, renters, health, and Medicare supplement insurance. QuoteWizard.com LLC was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Mike Peck Sr. will drive the car in the NHRA Heritage series, with son Michael Peck Jr., making his season debut driving in the UNFC series.
If you would like more information please contact Michael Peck Jr at (425) 753-3490 or email at [email protected]
Well, there goes nostalgia funnycar racing…anyone want to tell the sponser that the reason it’s popular is that the cars have character and don’t look like rolling blillboards? Switch the size and placement of the car’s name and sponsers, and you’ve got a winner. Otherwise, this’ll spell the demise of this segment of the class…because the cars long ago ceased to look like anything nostalgic.
Completely agree with you Gary.
Gary, I thought the same thing about the graffics on the car.And the rest of what you are saying is correct also.
Yes. Very exciting, if you love corporate billboards.
It’s sad that drag racing is all about who can outspend the other guy.
So first they stopped looking nostalgic, now they are sponsored. Saved a trip to Bakersfield I guess
When the cars started being more “aerodynamic”, I stopped watching. It’s newstalgia not nostalgia.
Many of you bitch about rich guys ruining drag racing, so Mike Peck, who owns a very nice automotive repair garage in Washington, lands a sponsor, good for him! Not too many owners can afford to race a current nitro funny car with a classic body on a modern NHRA Spec Chassis without some kind of sponsorship, a partner or deep pockets.
A nostalgia funny car is for Cacklefests and seldom needs a sponsor. A current nitro funny car with a classic fiberglass or carbon fiber body can easily cost well over $150,000 and upwards to race per year – while the NHRA Heritage Champion can haul in a hefty $2,500 for winning the yearlong Championship chase. Winning the United Nitro Funny Car Championship at least pays $10,000. How much does it cost to build a nitro funny car? $250,000+ plus the truck and trailer and tools and extra slicks and extra engines, maybe a back-up Lenco and a couple of replacement magnetos. Some 70-weight nitro racing oil is $1,200 per 55 gallon drum, nitromethane at approximately $1,600 for a 42-gallon drum.
So, Mike Peck pics up a new sponsor, congratulations Mike! He’ll be able to race a longer season to follow his passion, booking hotel rooms, feeding his crew, flying them to events scattered between Boise, Bakersfield, Tucson, Tulsa, Seattle and maybe a Match Race at Denver or Woodburn. When one of his crew guys can’t get Friday and Monday off of work, he’ll have to find someone outside the basic team to fill that space. Nobody hauls their nitro funny car down the road on a ramp truck, gas is no longer 65¢ a gallon and a Motel Six is no longer $6 bucks a night. There are some very competitive nitro funny car teams out there racing on a tight budget, but major damage sends them home.
I still have not seen anything nostalgic about today’s Heritage or UNFC nitro funny cars, nostalgia is a word used by NHRA to differentiate those cars from the Mello Yello show, there’s NOTHING nostalgia about this kind of racing and there never has been.
Get real, maybe drag racing has passed by you, get out your old Super Stock and Drag Illustrated magazines and American Sports Cavalcade VHS videos to see how it WAS, not the way nitro funny car racing IS today. Get off your dead ass and buy a ticket to a drag race, but you weren’t going to a nitro funny car race in 2020 anyway, were you?
I dont know ,but . I really think no one is really going after the “car owners”. its just the entire nastalgia funny car thing it self.Has morfed into anything but nastalgia. And soory for your assumtion, but. I do go to Bowling green and other tracks to watch just this type of racing. We all know this is a very high dollar hobby. And most people understand using some one elases money to have fun ,isnt a bad idea. However as a whole idea.Nascar and NHRA are in trouble . If you look at the lack of people attending,you will see it. I went to Indy ,nationals a couple years ago. You know “The big Go” On Sat last round of TF and Funny Car Qualifing.The stands may have been 60% filled. I can remeber 12 -15 years ago at that event it was shoulder to shoulder,totally filled grandstands. The sponcers now dictate what goes on so much on the track. The spectator sees just a homoginized same old same old stuff. Heck in NHRA the #16 qualifier has to run the #1 qualifier. Really ,then who is left at the end of the day?And this is a spincer wanted rule. The sponcers are ruining these sports all together. I think ,just me thinking here. That people lashing out about the sponcers. Is just thier way of seeing something they really like . Going to shit because thats what the sponcers want. And I know ,they are paying for it ,so be it. They just need to remember . There are a lot of other race types to go see now days. And I will refer back to the empty stands at the NHRA and Nascar events.THey let this happen,and it will. No one will caer to go watch these cars either. Just my take .Comming from a retired gear head that does travel long distances to go watch such events,regularly.
I think the best way to tackle this is to have a money cap on each car from the sponsors enough to off set expenses . my 2 cents worth .
Very Well Said! Sadly, it IS all about the money. I will be at the March Meet (10 years running) and love every minute of it.
So we’re supposed to feel bad these guys have expensive hobbies?
I race, I get the sponsorship thing, I don’t go you’re right I’ve lost interest in modern drag racing. Its entertainment for me. No sponsor on my car , I chose an expensive hobby and don’t expect anyone to shed tears over me.
I sure don’t see anybody asking that tears be shed, but to MF a racer because he lands a sponsor to support his passion, is lame. I’ve lost interest in modern drag racing as well, the Big Show kind.
A nostalgia race car with a wrap on it is sacrilegious.It should be hand lettered.