{"id":12808,"date":"2014-04-21T14:45:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:50:24","slug":"cole-whitt-without-a-ride-headed-to-richmond-parker-kligerman-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/04\/21\/cole-whitt-without-a-ride-headed-to-richmond-parker-kligerman-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Whitt without a ride headed to Richmond, Parker Kligerman uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/colewhittdaytona.jpg\" alt=\"colewhittdaytona\" width=\"647\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/colewhittdaytona.jpg 647w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/colewhittdaytona-594x379.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/colewhittdaytona-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/colewhittdaytona-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><br \/>\nCole Whitt&#8217;s rookie season at the NASCAR Sprint Cup level got a little rougher on Monday when news broke that the 22-year-old was without a ride for this weekends race at Richmond International Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Whitt had been driving the No. 26 car for Swan Racing but the underfunded team has been dealing with a lack of sponsorship for weeks which appears to have come to a head with Whitt and teammate Parker Kligerman having uncertain futures. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Marlowe tweeted last week that his goal was to ensure that Whitt had a ride for the rest of the season. Swan Racing is owned by Brandon Davis with Marlowe and former NFL player Bill Romanowski serving as partners.<\/p>\n<p>Davis bought Swan Racing from driver\/owner David Stremme prior to the start of last season. <\/p>\n<p>Whitt finished a season best 18th at Auto Club Speedway. Kligerman&#8217;s best finish was 29th in the season opening Daytona 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Whitt&#8217;s rookie season at the NASCAR Sprint Cup level got a little rougher on Monday when news broke that the 22-year-old was without a ride for this weekends race at Richmond International Raceway. Whitt had been driving the No. 26 car for Swan Racing but the underfunded team has been dealing with a lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[159,789,708,499],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-cole-whitt","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-parker-kligerman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","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=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}