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Rocket City Trash Pandas lean into Landon Huffman sponsorship, full car unveiled

JHby: Jonathan Howard08/03/24Jondean25
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One of the best sponsorships in racing was forged in the last week between Landon Huffman and the Rocket City Trash Pandas. Minor League Baseball and stock car racing coming together for a good time. We need more of this in NASCAR.

The CARS Tour is at North Wilkesboro Speedway to close out the season and make up the race that was rained out in May. Landon Huffman showed up with a new sponsor on his No. 57 car.

Check out these pictures of the car and maybe even a bit of merch.

Landon Huffman and Andrew Grady got into it at the last CARS Tour race. Grady called Huffman a trash panda. Now, the Alabama minor league organization is partnering with Huffman. Not a bad way to turn a bad situation into a positive one.

The CARS Tour is in a way like the minors of stock car racing as it relates to NASCAR. However, the comparison isn’t exactly an equal one with how motorsports works. There is a ton of talent in the CARS Tour that could replace plenty of drivers with full-time NASCAR deals Xfinity and Truck, maybe even Cup depending on who you are talking about.

Landon Huffman gets backing from Trash Pandas

There are times when social media comes together to make something great. For all of the faults in it, there are times when something cool happens. This is one of those cool moments for sure, and it all started with driver drama.

Following an on-track incident that left driver Andrew Grady smashing into the wall at the racetrack, Grady had some choice words for Huffman.

“In the words of Denny Hamlin, Landon Huffman, you’re a hack. It’s no wonder you lost your ride with the [No.] 22 [team]. You’re an absolute trash panda, bud,” Grady said, according to Frontstretch.com.

The trash panda comment immediately made headlines around the racing world, to the point that the Rocket City Trash Pandas, a minor league club in the Los Angeles Angels organization, caught wind of it. On Tuesday, the Trash Pandas tweeted about the incident.

“[T]his professional race car driver got called a ‘trash panda’ by another driver this past weekend,” the baseball organization wrote. “[S]hould we put our logo on his car?”

They did put their logo on the car, and now it’s about to race at North Wilkesboro.