{"id":1049,"date":"2011-01-19T18:21:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2011-01-19T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:21:42","slug":"steve-wallace-will-race-77-for-rwr-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/01\/19\/steve-wallace-will-race-77-for-rwr-at-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wallace will race #77 for RWR at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.autoracingdaily.com\/images\/featured\/steve_wallace200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" \/>Rusty Wallace Racing will field the #77 car that Steve Wallace will make his Sprint Cup debut in. The 23 year-old Wallace will run the 53rd annual running of the Daytona 500 in a Toyota Camry with sponsorship from 5-Hour Energy and Aspen Dental. Car owner points from the #77 that Sam Hornish ran last season at Penske Racing will guarantee that Wallace will make the field of 43.<\/p>\n<p>Long time crew chief and GM at RWR, Larry Carter will act as the crew chief for Wallace. With Steve&#8217;s appearance he will become the fourth different Wallace to appear in a Daytona 500.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Starting my first Daytona 500 is definitely going  to be the most exciting day of my career-make that my life-so far.  It&#8217;s  something that every kid wanting to be a racer-including me-dreams of  doing one day.  It&#8217;s the some of the best drivers in the world competing  in the biggest race in the world.  I really have to thank 5-Hour Energy  and Aspen Dental for making this possible.  As far as the race, my  goals are simple: to stay out of trouble, earn all the respect I can  from the other guys and make sure the 5-Hour Energy Toyota is there at  the end of the race.  The way restrictor plate racing goes, if we can do  that, there&#8217;s no telling what can happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if or how many additional races Wallace will run at the Sprint Cup level in 2011. It&#8217;s also unclear how NASCAR declaring declaring drivers must choose a series to run for the Championship would effect any potential run at Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rusty Wallace Racing will field the #77 car that Steve Wallace will make his Sprint Cup debut in. The 23 year-old Wallace will run the 53rd annual running of the Daytona 500 in a Toyota Camry with sponsorship from 5-Hour Energy and Aspen Dental. Car owner points from the #77 that Sam Hornish ran last [&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":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","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=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}