The current season has not been the best for the Cup Series team of Tony Stewart. Out of all his cars, only the number 4 Ford Mustang, driven by Kevin Harvick, could enter the playoff contention. However, after the Bass Pro Shops Night race at Bristol Motor Speedway, the 47-year-old Bakersfield resident fell out of the playoff rumble. This left Smoke with no car in the 2023 driver’s championship.

Stewart-Haas Racing will perhaps now try to rectify their mistakes, improve their cars, and regain their momentum. And that might be their agenda going into Talladega Superspeedway next week. Unfortunately, Tony Stewart, along with the driver for his number 41, got rammed by one of their sponsors a week before the race day.

A sliced bread company created marketing havoc for Stewart-Haas Racing

Since 1921, Wonder Bread has been serving premium quality sliced bread in the US. Owing to their popularity, Stewart-Haas Racing had partnered up with them ahead of the Talladega race. However, nobody knew when or how the name of the Flowers Foods company would appear on Ryan Preece‘s Cup ride. After all, things like these are meant to be revealed only at the last moment with the intention of building up suspense among the fans.

However, Publix leaked the paint scheme of Preece’s car way early. If one goes into a Publix store, one would find a Wonder bread counter with the words, “Wonder Back in Talladega!” written on it, with a picture of the #41 car. Indeed, a big hit on Tony Stewart’s team’s marketing scheme.

Despite the early reveal, fans seem to like the color scheme of Preece’s car. When the picture popped up on Reddit, someone said, “This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I sure do love Haas Tooling.”

Another one wrote, “I think that took some Tom Cruise voodoo magic to get that done right there. Applebees in Oxford, get ready!!!!!”

A Ryan Preece fan typed, “Never before have I wanted Preece to win as much as I do now.”

The red-blue-yellow color-trio looked quite impressive on the Ford Mustang. But longtime NASCAR fans reflected on how the design looked very similar to that of the #78 car that Kurt Busch drove back in 2013.

Spotted at Publix. Ryan Preece to run Wonder Bread Talladega Nights scheme at Talladega?
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A fan wrote, “It’s been 10 years since Kurt’s wonder scheme 😳😳😳”

Another said, “Hell yeah, and it’s the actual paint scheme too unlike the wonder bread car Kurt Busch ran a decade ago”

Ricky Bobby’s famous color scheme stays alive through Cup car of Tony Stewart

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It is impossible for a NASCAR fan to not have watched or at least heard about “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”. The 1 hour-48-minute-long comedy/sports movie by Sony Pictures Entertainment had Will Ferrell play the role of the legendary NASCAR driver. Fun fact: Preece’s car looks almost identical to the one used in the movie.

Ricky Bobby originally drove the #26 Laughing Clowns Malt Liquor car. Wonder Bread funded the 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle sponsored during Bobby’s ascension to the heights of NASCAR in the Talladega 500 at the end of the movie.

Ricky Bobby, to this day, is a NASCAR hero for his ‘win-at-all-cost’ attitude. With Talladega in the lineup, the costs can go really high and dangerous. With Preece’s latest 10-flip crash at Daytona, fans are just left to speculate what the 32-year-old Connecticut native does at Talladega, driving a racecar right out of a 2006 movie.

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