{"id":1498,"date":"2011-12-05T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2011-12-05T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:02:35","slug":"kurt-busch-being-replaced-at-penske-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/12\/05\/kurt-busch-being-replaced-at-penske-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Busch being replaced at Penske Racing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Kurt+Busch+Homestead+Miami+Speedway+Day+2+7l1u48fFx0hl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"402\" \/>The Charlotte Observer is reporting that former Sprint Cup Champion Kurt Busch is being removed from the #22 Penske Dodge. Busch fulled the 2011 season with a slew of questionable actions highlighted by those during the final event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season at Homestead.<\/p>\n<p>At Homestead Busch&#8217;s transmission expired early in the race. His entrance to the garage was blocked by a secret service SUV and the driver showed his displeasure by giving the middle finger. He later let off a slew of expletives at ESPN reporter Dr. Jerry Punch while waiting to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsor Shell was unhappy about the exchange and had publicly apologized. Current replacements could be David Ragan, Brian Vickers and David Reutimann.<\/p>\n<p>Crew chief Steve Addington left Penske Racing to become the crew chief of Tony Stewart in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Observer is reporting that former Sprint Cup Champion Kurt Busch is being removed from the #22 Penske Dodge. Busch fulled the 2011 season with a slew of questionable actions highlighted by those during the final event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season at Homestead. At Homestead Busch&#8217;s transmission expired early in the race. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[372],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kurt-busch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","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=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}