{"id":10318,"date":"2013-10-08T23:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2013-10-08T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:10:57","slug":"jeff-burton-close-to-sprint-cup-ride-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/10\/08\/jeff-burton-close-to-sprint-cup-ride-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Burton close to Sprint Cup ride for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4658\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4658\" alt=\"burton\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/10\/burton.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/10\/burton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/10\/burton-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Burton is close to a deal that will allow the 46-year-old driver to continue racing at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series level in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually have a lot of clarity, I just can&#8217;t talk about it just yet,&#8221; Burton said during a test session at Martinsville on Tuesday. &#8220;I can almost talk about it, but I just can&#8217;t. I don\u2019t know when I&#8217;ll be able to &#8212; it&#8217;s going to be a couple of weeks. A lot of stuff happened toward the end of last week and into (Monday). So yeah, it&#8217;s getting real clear to me what&#8217;s going to be going on. But I&#8217;m just not at the liberty to discuss it right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burton will leave Richard Childress Racing at the end of this season as Ryan Newman will assume the seat of the No. 31 Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few available seats for 2014 but none that match the profile of Burton&#8217;s current ride with RCR. Two available seats for 2014 are the No. 78 at Furniture Row and the No. 30 car at Swan Racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Burton is close to a deal that will allow the 46-year-old driver to continue racing at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series level in 2014. &#8220;I actually have a lot of clarity, I just can&#8217;t talk about it just yet,&#8221; Burton said during a test session at Martinsville on Tuesday. &#8220;I can almost talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[302],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-jeff-burton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","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=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}