{"id":1031,"date":"2011-01-12T06:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2011-01-12T06:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T10:04:38","slug":"faith-motorsports-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/01\/12\/faith-motorsports-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Motorsports is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kingdomwinners.com\/assets\/about\/morgan-standing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"412\" \/>Faith Motorsports will attempt to be a two car operation during the 2011 Nationwide season. With Morgan Sheppard behind the wheel of car #89 and 43-year-old Brett Rowe racing a second entry.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far it&#8217;s unknown what number Rowe will be driving but the points of the #89 car from last season will be moved over to his ride. Sheppard will take the points of the #21, in which he raced part of last season, of Richard Childress Racing. Childress will keep the car number.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe has appeard in 22 races over the last four seasons in the Nationwide Series. Last year he ran 3 laps at Montreal before overheating and exiting the race. He also attempted to run at Daytona, Nashville and Phoenix but failed to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd, 69, qualified for 27 races last season. He began racing at NASCAR&#8217;s top level in 1970 and earned 4 career wins in 514 starts in the Sprint Cup Series. His last race in that series was back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time Shepherd has been running Faith Motorsports. He&#8217;s appeared in 96 races over the last four years finishing on the lead lap 6 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith Motorsports will attempt to be a two car operation during the 2011 Nationwide season. With Morgan Sheppard behind the wheel of car #89 and 43-year-old Brett Rowe racing a second entry. Thus far it&#8217;s unknown what number Rowe will be driving but the points of the #89 car from last season will be moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[464],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-morgan-shepherd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","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=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}