Sponsor re-ups with JR Motorsports

For the second straight year, Hunt Brothers Pizza will serve as a primary sponsor for four of Kevin Harvick‘s races in the series. In the Nationwide Series this season, Harvick has won four of his 14 starts for JRM, the team co-owned by NASCAR Sprint Cup Series star Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Harvick has driven the team’s No. 5 entry in all but one of his starts, piloting the No. 88 in the other. Starting next year, the No. 88 will be the team’s full-time third car, with Harvick, Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne among the drivers sharing driving duties. Earnhardt Jr. ran the No. 88 in the four Nationwide Series races he ran this season.

This season, the JR Motorsports fleet has nine wins in the Nationwide Series, with Harvick posting four of the wins. The team also has the top two drivers in the points standings, Chase Elliott and Regan Smith. Smith announced earlier this month that he had re-upped with the team for another season, while Elliott will be back with a new crew chief in 2015. Ernie Cope will be atop the pit box for the No. 9, as Elliott’s current crew chief, Greg Ives, moves to the Sprint Cup Series to serve as Earnhardt Jr.’s crew chief.

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