{"id":10445,"date":"2013-10-16T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:09:38","slug":"ragan-and-gilliland-to-return-to-front-row-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/10\/16\/ragan-and-gilliland-to-return-to-front-row-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ragan and Gilliland to return to Front Row for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10446\" alt=\"ragangilliland\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/ragangilliland.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/ragangilliland.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/ragangilliland-580x418.jpg 580w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/ragangilliland-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Front Row Racing has reached extensions with two of its mainstays as it prepares for the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>This spring at Talladega the team of David Ragan and David Gilliland teamed up to give Front Row Racing its first win in NASCAR&#8217;s top series as the No. 34 of Ragan found victory lane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a milestone year for us, and we\u2019re extremely happy that two of the guys who helped get us here will be back next year,\u201d said team owner Bob Jenkins. \u201cWe\u2019re improving our race program, attracting more sponsors and setting and achieving higher and higher goals each year. Having David and David, our one-two punch, back in those cars next year is central to continuing our growth and improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 season will be Front Row Motorsports\u2019 fifth year teaming with Gilliland and its third with Ragan. Ragan will remain in the No. 34 car with Gilliland in the No. 38.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting that first win for Front Row this year was huge,\u201d said Ragan, who has two wins in his Sprint Cup Series career. \u201cBut we made a lot of other improvements that maybe didn\u2019t get the big headlines, like qualifying better and stepping up our mile-and-a-half program, that have made a big difference in our performance every week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is definitely not the same team I came to five years ago,\u201d said Gilliland, an eight-year Sprint Cup veteran with two career-best second-place finishes. \u201cWe\u2019ve made big strides across the board, and I\u2019m proud to have been a part of that progress. Now that we have almost a full year working with this Generation-6 car under our belt, I think the potential for next year is even greater for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front Row Racing has reached extensions with two of its mainstays as it prepares for the 2014 season. This spring at Talladega the team of David Ragan and David Gilliland teamed up to give Front Row Racing its first win in NASCAR&#8217;s top series as the No. 34 of Ragan found victory lane. \u201cThis has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[182,184,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-10445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-david-gilliland","11":"tag-david-ragan","12":"tag-front","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445","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=10445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10445"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}