{"id":11168,"date":"2014-01-06T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11168"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:02:06","slug":"sam-hornish-jr-to-drive-part-time-in-nationwide-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/01\/06\/sam-hornish-jr-to-drive-part-time-in-nationwide-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hornish Jr. to drive part-time for Joe Gibbs Racing in NNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11173\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11173\" alt=\"Getty Images for NASCAR\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/samhornish.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/samhornish.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/01\/samhornish-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images for NASCAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sam Hornish Jr. will drive part-time for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series this season. Hornish, 34, will pilot the No.54 Monster Energy Toyota in seven races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited about driving the No.54 Monster Energy car this year. It\u0019s a great opportunity for me,\u001d&#8221; Hornish Jr. said. &#8220;It\u0019s the best possible situation for me to jump into great equipment and have the opportunity to go right out and win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch will drive the car the remaining 26 races. Adam Stevens is returning to call the shots from atop the pit box.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u0019re excited to have someone of Sam\u0019s caliber joining Kyle behind the wheel of the Monster Energy Camry this year&#8221;,\u001d said J.D. Gibbs, President of Joe Gibbs Racing. &#8220;\u001cWe think we have a great team there with Monster Energy and Sam will be an outstanding addition. We lost out on the owner\u0019s championship by just one point last year so our focus will be on trying to get that title back in 2014.\u001d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hornish has spent the past two seasons driving the No. 12 car for Penske Racing in the Nationwide Series. Last season he recorded one win, 16 top-five and 25 top-ten finishes and captured four pole awards. In 99 career starts, Hornish has two wins, 28 top-five and 53 top-ten finishes. He also has made 130 career starts in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Hornish Jr. will drive part-time for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series this season. Hornish, 34, will pilot the No.54 Monster Energy Toyota in seven races. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited about driving the No.54 Monster Energy car this year. It\u0019s a great opportunity for me,\u001d&#8221; Hornish Jr. said. &#8220;It\u0019s the best possible situation for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[708],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-11168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}