Dash for cash: Cup champ Truex in the market for `19 sponsor
(World News USA)

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) - Martin Truex Jr. has a sudden thirst for sponsorship cash. Truex and his Furniture Row Racing team had about three weeks` notice that 5-hour Energy was set to leave the defending NASCAR champion as a primary sponsor at the end of the season. After a 10-year relationship, the NASCAR buzz wore off for the energy brand, the latest big-bucks corporate defector from the sport. 5-hour`s departure leaves Furniture Row scrambling for coveted sponsorship dollars for the No. 78 Toyota and one of the top drivers in the Cup Series. `I wish it didn`t take quite as long as it did,` Truex said Friday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. `It kind of puts us in a tough spot now. But I`m not...