{"id":10064,"date":"2013-09-23T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:38:54","slug":"furniture-row-intersted-in-martin-truex-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/09\/23\/furniture-row-intersted-in-martin-truex-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Furniture Row interested in Martin Truex Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

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If Michael Waltrip Racing can not find sponsorship for Martin Truex Jr. the driver could head to Furniture Row Racing.<\/p>\n

Furniture Row is losing driver Kurt Busch at the end of the season to Stewart Haas Racing. Truex is facing an uncertain 2014 season himself after initially qualifying for hte 2013 Sprint Cup Series Chase only to be booted in the wake of some questionable activities from other MWR teammates.<\/p>\n

Primary sponsor NAPA Auto Parts opted to leave MWR in the wake of those actions. The value of the deal between NAPA and MWR has been “reported” to be anywhere from $12-18 million.<\/p>\n

So could the two eventual prove to be a match?<\/p>\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would certainly be on the radar to talk to,\u201d general manager Joe Garone said of Truex, via SN<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s more than qualified to drive the 78.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course another option could be Richard Childress Racing who has been trying to expand to a fourth car.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always interested, but we\u2019re going to see what shakes down here with those guys,\u201d Childress said. \u201cI hope NAPA stays in the sport. I really hate it for Martin. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll see the value in our sport and hopefully stay in with whomever.<\/p>\n

Joe Gibbs Racing and Penske Racing have both denied interest in Truex Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Michael Waltrip Racing can not find sponsorship for Martin Truex Jr. the driver could head to Furniture Row Racing. Furniture Row is losing driver Kurt Busch at the end of the season to Stewart Haas Racing. Truex is facing an uncertain 2014 season himself after initially qualifying for hte 2013 Sprint Cup Series Chase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[408],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-10064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-martin-truex-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}