{"id":104342,"date":"2026-07-16T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/aflac-renews-team-kalitta-partnership-joins-team-for-nhra-sonoma-nationals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:44:08","slug":"aflac-renews-team-kalitta-partnership-joins-team-for-nhra-sonoma-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/aflac-renews-team-kalitta-partnership-joins-team-for-nhra-sonoma-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Aflac Renews Team Kalitta Partnership, Joins Team for NHRA Sonoma Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the United States,\u00a0renewed its partnership with Kalitta Motorsports,\u00a0the team announced today.\u00a0The three-car Kalitta Motorsports team races in the National Hot Rod Association\u2019s Mission Foods Drag Racing Series with races contested throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Aflac\u00a0(NYSE: AFL)\u00a0will be the primary partner on two-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Doug Kalitta\u2019s car at the Denso NHRA Sonoma Nationals presented by PowerEdge July 17-19, 2026, at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to renew our relationship with team Kalitta for another season of racing fun in 2026,\u201d said Aflac Senior Vice President, Broker Strategy Richard Siebert. \u201cAflac prides itself on paying benefits quickly and efficiently to help our customers in their time of need in the same way that Doug Kalitta races to the finish line ahead of the competition. We wish Doug all the success in the world for this racing season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aflac, the no. 1 provider in supplemental insurance products in the United States also is a leading provider of cancer insurance, designed to protect policyholders during their times of need. The company is a 20-time recipient of Ethisphere\u2019s World\u2019s Most Ethical Companies recognition, the only insurance company to be on this prestigious list every year since the inception of the honor in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAflac returning to Kalitta Motorsports this season is great news for our race team and for NHRA Drag Racing overall,\u201d Kalitta Motorsports General Manager Chad Head said. \u201cConnie Kalitta started Kalitta Motorsports in the 1950s around the same time the Amos family started their business. Aflac\u2019s commitment to innovation closing the gap between what health insurance does and does not cover, is not unlike what we do at Kalitta Motorsports with a never-ending need to push the envelope and make our cars faster. We hope this relationship remains mutually beneficial, and we welcome Aflac back to Team Kalitta and NHRA Drag Racing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-modified-info\">This story was originally published on July 16, 2026. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DI_flat_red-e1711481551475.png\" width=\"20px\" alt=\"Drag Illustrated\"><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/aflac-renews-team-kalitta-partnership-joins-team-for-nhra-sonoma-nationals\/\">Aflac Renews Team Kalitta Partnership, Joins Team for NHRA Sonoma Nationals<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/\">Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the United States,\u00a0renewed its partnership with Kalitta Motorsports,\u00a0the team announced today.\u00a0The three-car Kalitta Motorsports team races in the National Hot Rod Association\u2019s Mission Foods Drag Racing Series with races contested throughout the United States. Aflac\u00a0(NYSE: AFL)\u00a0will be the primary partner on two-time NHRA Top Fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}