Wicked Energy Gum To Sponsor Kasey Kahne In Return To Dirt Track Racing

Story By: KASEY KAHNE RACING – NEW YORK, NY – Wicked Cushion, LLC announced today that it has signed a sponsorship agreement with World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series team Kasey Kahne Racing (KKR). Wicked Cushion’s new and innovative consumer energy product, Wicked Energy Gum has partnered with KKR to be the sponsor of Kasey Kahne’s No. 9 team for the 2019 season.

Wicked Cushion is further excited to announce that Wicked Energy Gum will also be an associate sponsor of the KKR No. 49 Napa Auto Parts car driven by Brad Sweet in 2019.

Wicked Energy Gum is a convenient, great tasting, alternative to energy drinks. You can enjoy up to a 5x faster boost in energy, alertness and focus without having to fill up on liquids! Wicked Energy Gum has compressed the best energy boosting ingredients into each piece of gum so that you can get a fast-acting boost of energy whenever you need it most! Wicked Energy Gum will be available to the public later this year.

“We are very excited to welcome Kasey to the Wicked Cushion family,” said Matthew Henninger, founder of Wicked Cushion. We had such a great experience with KKR this past season and we are thrilled to now have our Wicked Energy Gum brand on Kasey’s car for 2019.

Retiring from full-time NASCAR competition after a successful 15-year career in stock cars, Kahne is returning to his roots and is scheduled to compete in 50 sprint car events on both the World of Outlaws and All-Star Circuit of Champions tours in 2019. Details on Kahne’s full schedule will be released at a later date.

Wicked Energy Gum will kick off the 2019 season on Kahne’s No. 9 machine, February 6-10 at the Dirt Car Nationals at Volusia County Speedway in Barberville, Fla.

“We were fortunate enough to start a relationship with Wicked Cushion during the Knoxville Nationals last year and when they decided to launch their new product, Wicked Energy Gum, we were glad they chose KKR to help get their product off the ground, said Kasey Kahne, owner of Kasey Kahne Racing. “This is the most excited I have been in a long time to get back to racing. I feel great and I’ve been working out a lot preparing for the upcoming season. Returning to sprint cars on a more regular basis is something that I have been looking forward to for years.”

The World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series is the country’s premier dirt track series with 90 races at 50 different racetracks, in 24 states, over a nine-month season. KKR has won over 170 WoO feature events, including a championship in 2013.