{"id":14368,"date":"2014-08-14T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14368"},"modified":"2014-08-14T19:32:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:32:42","slug":"tony-stewart-will-not-race-at-michigan-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/08\/14\/tony-stewart-will-not-race-at-michigan-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stewart will not race at Michigan this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6820 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/03\/tonystewart.jpg\" alt=\"tonystewart\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/03\/tonystewart.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/03\/tonystewart-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tony Stewart will not race this weekend at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn according to a press release that was sent out by his team. Instead veteran driver Jeff Burton, a winner of 21 Sprint Cup races, will pilot the #14 Mobil 1\/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart was involved in last Saturday&#8217;s accident at\u00a0the Sprint car race at\u00a0Canandaigua Speedway in New York that took the life of 20-year old Kevin Ward Jr. There are no criminal charges against Stewart at this time.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stewart sat out Sunday&#8217;s race at Watkins Glen and now will sit out Sunday&#8217;s Pure Michigan 400.<\/p>\n<p>The change only pertains to Michigan, Stewart&#8217;s plans for future races have yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:00am\/et on Friday in the deadline room of the infield media center at Michigan, Burton will be part of a press briefing featuring SHR executive vice president Brett Frood and SHR vice president of competition Greg Zipadelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stewart will not race this weekend at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn according to a press release that was sent out by his team. Instead veteran driver Jeff Burton, a winner of 21 Sprint Cup races, will pilot the #14 Mobil 1\/Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart was involved in last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-14368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","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=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}