{"id":11397,"date":"2014-01-31T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2014-01-31T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:22:35","slug":"jeb-burton-loses-ride-after-sponsor-defaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/01\/31\/jeb-burton-loses-ride-after-sponsor-defaults\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Burton loses ride after sponsor defaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10513\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/jebburtonpole.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/jebburtonpole.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/jebburtonpole-543x418.jpg 543w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/jebburtonpole-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe 2014 season of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Jeb Burton is not getting off to a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Turner Scott Motorsports announced on Friday that Arrowhead, the primary sponsor of the No. 4 Chevrolet, had defaulted on its payments to the team.<\/p>\n<p>As a result TSM will not be fielding a truck for Burton full-time in the 2014 season. TSM believes as many as 20 percent of its staff could be downsized. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, these are tough circumstances for everyone involved, not just for me, but also for my teammates who are affected,&#8221; said Burton. &#8220;I am working with Turner Scott Motorsports to identify any potential opportunities for me to get on the track this year.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>TSM will field entries in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ward Burton, father of Jeb, tweeted out his disappointment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has supported my family through this difficult time. We are continuing to work hard to move <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JebBurtonRacing\">@JebBurtonRacing<\/a> forward<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ward Burton (@Ward27Burton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ward27Burton\/statuses\/429415556228214785\">February 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Burton ran all 22 NCWTS races in 2013 earning a win at Texas and finishing fifth in the driver standings while scoring seven poles. He finished inside the top-ten in 11 races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 season of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Jeb Burton is not getting off to a good start. Turner Scott Motorsports announced on Friday that Arrowhead, the primary sponsor of the No. 4 Chevrolet, had defaulted on its payments to the team. As a result TSM will not be fielding a truck for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,788],"tags":[301,708,830],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-11397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-truck-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-jeb-burton","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-turner-scott-motorsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","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=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}