Werner Enterprises will be stepping down as the primary sponsor on the Top Fuel team of Kenny Koretsky driven my Clay Millican. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company will step down following this weekend's event in Rockingham.

Werner Vice President Dwayne Haug said the company has used drag racing as a way to recruit drivers but the program has run its course.

Werner Enterprises will be stepping down as the primary sponsor on the Top Fuel team of Kenny Koretsky driven my Clay Millican. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company will step down following this weekend's event in Rockingham.

Werner Vice President Dwayne Haug said the company has used drag racing as a way to recruit drivers but the program has run its course.

“Everything runs its course,” Haug told the Fayetteville Observer Time's Thomas Pope. “It’s a business decision. We have other commitments and other things to start channeling some funds to.

“We figured at the beginning this would last two, maybe three, years, and it’s been seven. These guys have been the best ambassadors that we could ever hope for. We’ve dedicated an entire wing of our museum in Omaha to them.”

Werner will remain with the team as an associate sponsor in 2007 but a primary sponsor will need to be procured.

Millican is confident the team will be racing.

“Kenny says we’re racing, no matter what," Millican said.

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