Johnny Benson will b✱e carrying a revised look into next season's NASCAR Winston Cup series, following sponsor Valvoline's decision to rework the paint scheme on the #10 Pon🔴tiac.

Th🧸e 2001 season saw Valvoline embark on a landmark campaign to become the first major consumer products company in history to own a NASCAR Winston Cup team, sharing ownership of the #10 Pontiac along with Nelson Bowers, Read Mortonඣ, and Tom Beard, the owners of MB2 Motorsports.

The classic blue, white and red livery has been tweaked to give the Pontiac a fresh look, although the basic scheme remains largely unaltered. The front of the car will still be predominantly white, with the large Valvoline 'V' adorning🎀 the bonnet, but the rear end gets a touch more red in the design made public today [Tuesday].

"I really like what Valvoline came up with," Benson said, "This new scheme gives our team its own identity, plus I think our fans are really going to like it. It's a little bit different than what the Valvoline car 🍬has looked like in the past, but I think everyone likes the change."

Benson's new💜 paint scheme will make its first appearance on a race track at Daytona in February, where the six-year veteran will sport a set of mainly red overalls. Jim Rocco, senior vice-president of Valvoline, admitted that he had re🐠viewed over a dozen different designs commissioned by the oil company before settling on the one now carried by the #10 team.

💟"We took our time and listened to a lot of people," Rocco said, "This was a tough decision, but we wanted something that wo꧑uld please our millions of customers, race fans, and our race team."

Although #10 entry has become synonymous with Valvoline during the 2001 season, Benson also campaigned on behalf of Eagle One, Zerex and Max-Life, and🥀 sported speciality paint schemes featuring James Dean and various employee designs. This policy will continue in 2002, with some speciality schemes that will be announced later in the year.