Amazon Prime to sponsor Chase Elliott's car

(SRN NEWS/97.5 GLORY FM) – Amazon Prime has signed a deal to sponsor Dawsonville’s Chase Elliott’s car for three races annually from 2025-27.

The agreement with the Hendrick Motorsports is in an effort to raise awareness of Prime Video’s Cup Series rights deal that begins this season. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The paint scheme for Elliott’s No. 9 Chevrolet will use Amazon Prime’s blue and white colors, with a “NASCAR on Prime” logo reading “Streaming May 2025” placed on the rear bumper. The 29-year-old Elliott won the “Most Popular Driver” award for the seventh consecutive season in 2024.

Amazon will use is first sponsorship at Talladega on April 27. It will then skip Texas and use the final two for 2025 in mid-May at Kansas and the All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.