{"id":15084,"date":"2014-10-04T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2014-10-04T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:54:11","slug":"regan-smith-re-signs-with-jr-motorsports-still-wants-cup-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/10\/04\/regan-smith-re-signs-with-jr-motorsports-still-wants-cup-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Regan Smith re-signs with JR Motorsports, still wants Cup ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/10\/regansmith.jpg\" alt=\"regansmith\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15085\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/10\/regansmith.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/10\/regansmith-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nRegan Smith is currently second in the NASCAR Nationwide Series point standings and while the driver of the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro re-signed with JR Motorsports recently that has not stopped him from dreaming of a return to the Sprint Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely want to get back to Cup,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever denied that or said that I don\u2019t. That\u2019s the goal. I want to prove that I belong there and get to race on Sunday\u2019s and get to run the longer races again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith last raced in the Cup Series two years ago before the No. 78 Furniture Row team dropped in him favor of Kurt Busch. While there are a few Cup seats up for grabs in 2015, Smith felt it was best to get his plans for next season in place now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaturally, there are some openings\u2014on paper, it would appear\u2014on that (Sprint Cup) side,\u201d said Smith. \u201cBut at the time, I just felt like it was time to go ahead and start trying to solidify some things for next year and know, generally speaking, where I\u2019m going to be.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s lone Cup Series win came in the Southern 500 in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regan Smith is currently second in the NASCAR Nationwide Series point standings and while the driver of the No. 7 Chevrolet Camaro re-signed with JR Motorsports recently that has not stopped him from dreaming of a return to the Sprint Cup Series. \u201cI definitely want to get back to Cup,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI don\u2019t think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[529],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-15084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-regan-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","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=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}