Anheuser-Busch will no longer serve as title sponsor of NASCAR's #2 series after 2007, Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal reports.

Anheuser-Busch's contract with NASCAR for the NASCAR Busch Series comes to an end after 2007, and NASCAR officials say the cost to sponsor the series will go up.

Tony Ponturo, Anheuser-Busch's vice president of global media and sports marketing, told the SBJ that it was his company's decision to withdraw from the sponsorship.

SBJ reports that industry sources are estimating the new sponsorship deal could be worth more than $30 million a year, which is three times what Anheuser-Busch is paying.(SceneDaily.com)(12-18-2006)

According to the SportsBusiness Journal, Subway, Wal-Mart and Samsung "are expected to make strong plays for the title deal."(FoxSports.com)(12-18-2006)

Go Samsung! *kicks WalMart*

The Walmart series? Uh no Samsung sounds better of the three

I vote Samsung! Stupid Wal-Mart!

I tend to not shop at wal-mart a lot but I'm not anti-wal-mart either. I think that they do a decent service anyways. And my family is very pro-wal-mart seeing as that is their closest real store anyways, at an hour away.

Samsung please!

I just have issues with how they run their business is all. They're kinda shady. But by no means am I begrudging anybody a shopping experience, either.

I can't believe your parents closest store is an hour. The mind, she is boggled. (Clearly I don't have a ton of experience with very rural areas. :))

Yup, one is in Sterling, about an hour north and west of here, and the other is in Fort Morgan, about an hour west and slightly south of here. Northeastern Colorado is very rural.

I think the Subway Series sounds kind of cool. Although the first thing that comes to mind when I hear that is the interleague-play series between the Mets and Yankees. hahaha Either that or Samsung would be fine with me. I love Wal-Mart, but it just doesn't have a good ring to it.

The Samsung Series sounds pretty cool.

The Subway Series is kinda lame but could be worse.

The Wal-Mart Series, NO THAT IS JUST SCREWED UP.

WTF No Subway or walmart

Dude, if they did the Subway Series, the Power Rankings on Nascar.com would be ALL ABOUT SUBWAY! More than they already are. :lmao

:nono thats just wrong!!

There's only one Subway series and that's Yankees/Mets.

I'm with most of you on this one: Samsung all the way!

I love Walmart, so I would be for that.

oh ick, no Walmart.........

I shop there, but only when I have too.......

and I thought Walmart didn't want to sponsor a car at one time cause "it would affect their low prices if they spent that much sponsoring a car" and now they want to sponsor a whole series........interesting

Interesting. It will be interesting to see who ends up being the title sponsor though it will be weird for it to not be the Busch series anymore. I like the way it sounds.

You know what they should do. Go old school and called it the Nascar grand national series but say presented by_______. I'm sorry but The Samsung Series, the Subway series and most definitely the Walmart Series does not sound right

That's what I was thinking.

I guess the Monster deal fell through.

Subway series, eh
Samsung series, getting better
Walmart series, yuck

I think i'm gonna watch the Wal-Mart race today....Thats so lame. I hope it's not that.

Why does everyone hate Walmart so much? Just curious.

Erica, for me it's their business practices and how they treat their employees. And their stores always seem overcrowded, dirty, and understaffed. It's typically the last place I'll go if I need something.

I totally agree.

I don't hate Wal-mart either, Erica.

I don't have a problem with Wal-Mart. I'm a frequent Wal-Mart shopper. My problem with Wal-Mart as a sponsor is the image it portrays.

Yeah I gotta pick Samsung on this one. The others just don't sound right to me.

Ok, I was just curious. To each his own. :)