Oregon State goes NASCAR, sponsors stock car team for Portland race<\/p>\n
Published 10:53 am Monday, August 25, 2025<\/p>\n
Everyone is ready for Oregon State\u2019s upcoming football season, even NASCAR.<\/p>\n
The university and the NASCAR Xfinity Series team Sam Hunt Racing<\/a> announced a one race partnership Monday. SHR driver Dean Thompson\u2019s No. 26 car is distinctly orange<\/a> for the upcoming Pacific Office Automation 147 at Portland International Raceway<\/a> on Saturday. The car features Oregon State\u2019s iconic Beaver logo on its hood and wood grain on it\u2019s doors for the fourth-annual Xfinity Series race in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n Thompson\u2019s trip around Portland International Raceway in the orange ride will be his first ever at the course. The 24-year-old stock car driver is in his second season in the Xfinity Series, the second-highest tier of the NACAR pyramid, and has recorded four top-10s for SHR.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to race at Portland for the first time and to give the hometown crowd someone to root for with the OSU Beavers on the hood of our GR Supra,\u201d said Thompson said.\u201dWe\u2019ve really advanced on road courses throughout the year, and I look forward to racing hard for the local fanbase and OSU supporters to bring home a great result. It\u2019ll be a great experience visiting the university on Friday, bringing the NASCAR world to the doorstep of Beaver Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n The partnership marks Oregon State\u2019s on-track debut, joining schools like Liberty<\/a>, Arkansas<\/a> and James Madison<\/a> in the world of motorsport sponsors.<\/p>\n \u201cAs Oregon\u2019s statewide university, we\u2019re proud to help welcome NASCAR back to Portland and share our pride with the many Beaver Nation NASCAR fans,\u201d Rob Odom, Oregon State\u2019s Vice President of University Relations & Marketing, said.<\/p>\n The Pacific Office Automation 147 begins at 4:30 p.m. at Portland International Raceway and will be broadcast on The CW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon State goes NASCAR, sponsors stock car team for Portland race Published 10:53 am Monday, August 25, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,9718,1364,95686,58291,99525,99526,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-174956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-oregon-state","10":"tag-oregon-state-beavers","11":"tag-oregon-state-university","12":"tag-osu","13":"tag-osu-athletics","14":"tag-osu-beavers","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115090777012529720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}