{"id":1598,"date":"2012-01-07T20:35:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2012-01-07T20:35:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:35:44","slug":"go-green-racing-annouces-joey-gase-as-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/01\/07\/go-green-racing-annouces-joey-gase-as-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Green Racing announces Joey Gase as driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Joey+Gase+Texas+Motor+Speedway+Day+2+xnlAJljrwcal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"202\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joey Gase driving the Go Green Racing #39 at Texas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joey Gase will be the driver of the #39 Go Green Racing Ford Mustang in 2012. The 18 year old driver from Cedar Rapids Iowa will run for rookie of the year honors in the series and competed in five events for the team last season.<\/p>\n<p>Gase&#8217;s best finish for the team was a 20th place run at Iowa and he managed to keep the car running for all five of the events he was a part of. In total Gase completed 98.2% of the laps run during those five races.<\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier the team is still looking to run a second team with a rotation of drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Gase began his racing career at at  Hawkeye Downs Speedway, running modifieds and became  the track\u2019s youngest late model seasons points champion in 2009 at age  16.<\/p>\n<p>He looks forward to the opportunity of running for the rookie of the year award at the Nationwide level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really feel like we can hold our own in the Title hunt,\u201d Gase  said. \u201cWe have a great team, support (from Roush Fenway Racing), and now  we just need to go out there and let our performance speak for itself.  There has been a lot of expansion and changes in the off season and I  can\u2019t wait for Daytona.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Gase will be the driver of the #39 Go Green Racing Ford Mustang in 2012. The 18 year old driver from Cedar Rapids Iowa will run for rookie of the year honors in the series and competed in five events for the team last season. Gase&#8217;s best finish for the team was a 20th [&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":[240,324],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-go-green-racing","8":"tag-joey-gase"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}