{"id":1571,"date":"2012-01-01T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2012-01-01T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T14:09:06","slug":"race-day-sponsor-will-back-kevin-lepage-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/01\/01\/race-day-sponsor-will-back-kevin-lepage-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Day Sponsor will back Kevin Lepage in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Kevin+Lepage+Homestead+Miami+Speedway+Day+cb0bcILrk4cl.jpg\" alt=\"Lepage ran for Jimmy Means for 17 events in 2011\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lepage ran for Jimmy Means in 17 events during 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Count Kevin Lepage in the list of NASCAR drivers who have sponsorship for 2012. The veteran driver does not yet have a seat to sit in for the upcoming season. Lepage&#8217;s hope is for a full time ride and he&#8217;s not particular about which of the top 3 series it is in.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Lepage ran 22 events in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Rensi Motorsports and Jimmy Means. The majority of those races came with Means and while running with a team that has never placed a top-10 in 188 Nationwide starts his results were mainly a bunch of back of the packs.<\/p>\n<p>In his career Lepage has run just 7 truck series events. He has also not competed at the Sprint Cup level since a two race stint with Front Row Motorsports in 2007, though he did have 25 did not qualify attempts that season.<\/p>\n<p>Since his familiarity is in the Nationwide Series it&#8217;s likely that is where Lepage stays in 2012. His past relationships with Means also increases the chance the two work together again this coming season.<\/p>\n<p>The 49 year old driver has made 307 career starts in the Nationwide Series since his debut in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count Kevin Lepage in the list of NASCAR drivers who have sponsorship for 2012. The veteran driver does not yet have a seat to sit in for the upcoming season. Lepage&#8217;s hope is for a full time ride and he&#8217;s not particular about which of the top 3 series it is in. Last season Lepage [&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":[367],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kevin-lepage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","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=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}