{"id":1039,"date":"2011-01-13T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2011-01-13T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T02:40:00","slug":"hornish-out-at-penske","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/01\/13\/hornish-out-at-penske\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornish out at Penske"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Sam+Hornish+Jr+NASCAR+Homestead+Preview+DYZ721IY1UIl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"344\" \/>The struggle to find Sam Hornish Jr sponsorship to run the Nationwide schedule appears to have been abandoned. Hornish was already out of the #77 ride at the Sprint Cup level but there appeared to a chance he would run the full slate of Nationwide races in the #12 following the release of Justin Allgaier.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how much effort was actually put into finding sponsorship for Hornish on the Nationwide Series as of the two drivers Allgaier appeared to be the hotter commodity following a forth place finish in the series last year.<\/p>\n<p>There had also been a chance that Hornish would show up in the #77 to run the first five races of the 2011 Sprint schedule but that also has been put aside. According to Fox Sports the #77 Cup crew as well as the #12 Nationwide crew were merged with the #22 Nationwide and #2 Cup crews to provide support for driver Brad Keselowski in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Hornish was a three time IZOD Indy Car Champion (2001, 2002, 2006)\u00a0 who won 19 races in the series. His run at NASCAR wasn&#8217;t so well as he managed just 8 top-10&#8217;s in 108 races spread over 4 years at the Cup level. He finished 29th in Cup points in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The struggle to find Sam Hornish Jr sponsorship to run the Nationwide schedule appears to have been abandoned. Hornish was already out of the #77 ride at the Sprint Cup level but there appeared to a chance he would run the full slate of Nationwide races in the #12 following the release of Justin Allgaier. [&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":[569],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-sam-hornish-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","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=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}