{"id":16206,"date":"2015-05-05T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16206"},"modified":"2015-05-05T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:06:26","slug":"sam-hornish-gets-new-crew-chief-in-kevin-manion-for-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/05\/05\/sam-hornish-gets-new-crew-chief-in-kevin-manion-for-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hornish gets new crew chief in Kevin Manion for Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16207\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/samhornish.jpg\" alt=\"samhornish\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/samhornish.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/samhornish-594x377.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/samhornish-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/samhornish-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Petty Motorsports announced on Tuesday that the No. 9 Ford Fusion driven by Sam Hornish Jr. in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will have a new crew chief when it hits the track at Kansas Speedway this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin &#8220;Bono&#8221; Manion has been hired to take over as the crew chief for the car driven by Hornish replacing Drew\u00a0Blickensderfer. RPM has offered Blickensderfer another position within the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Manion has five wins in the premier Sprint Cup Series and 15 wins in the NASCAR XFINITY Series.<\/p>\n<p>Hornish is coming off a season best sixth place finish at Talladega which was his best run since a fifth place finish at Watkins Glen in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Petty Motorsports announced on Tuesday that the No. 9 Ford Fusion driven by Sam Hornish Jr. in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will have a new crew chief when it hits the track at Kansas Speedway this weekend. Kevin &#8220;Bono&#8221; Manion has been hired to take over as the crew chief for the car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206","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=16206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}