{"id":12690,"date":"2014-04-09T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2014-04-09T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:43:21","slug":"brian-vickers-to-drive-car-celebrating-florida-states-national-championship-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/04\/09\/brian-vickers-to-drive-car-celebrating-florida-states-national-championship-at-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Vickers to drive car celebrating Florida State&#8217;s National Championship at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12691\" alt=\"vickersfsu\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/vickersfsu.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/vickersfsu.jpg 589w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/vickersfsu-576x418.jpg 576w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/vickersfsu-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to Daytona International Speedway the No. 55 Toyota Camry of Brian Vickers will have a special paint scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Vickers will have his Michael Waltrip Racing machine wrapped in the colors of the 2013 NCAA National Champions, the Florida State Seminoles. Along with the garnet and gold paint, a logo celebrating Florida State&#8217;s championship will be on the hood while MWR sponsor Aaron&#8217;s is on the sides and rear of the car.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/product_ad_widget\/paw.php?pawid=85899&amp;pw=157431&amp;output=js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone in America knows about Florida State\u2019s tradition of success especially in athletics,&#8221; said Vickers in a news release. &#8220;Aaron\u2019s and I really want to continue that tradition at Daytona in July and give Seminole fans a chance to see their car and colors celebrate in victory lane. I\u2019m excited to be representing my home state on the car for Daytona. We\u2019re hoping it will give us a \u2018home field\u2019 advantage we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that the No. 55 car has celebrated a National Championship winning team. They previously have honored Alabama and Auburn. Last year they honored the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball champions in Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>Vickers owns three wins in the Cup Series. In 15 career starts at Daytona he has a best finish of seventh. He finished 30th in this seasons Daytona 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to Daytona International Speedway the No. 55 Toyota Camry of Brian Vickers will have a special paint scheme. Vickers will have his Michael Waltrip Racing machine wrapped in the colors of the 2013 NCAA National Champions, the Florida State Seminoles. Along with the garnet and gold paint, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[104,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-brian-vickers","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","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=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}