{"id":1637,"date":"2012-01-28T09:32:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2012-01-28T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:32:48","slug":"sam-hornish-will-run-full-nationwide-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/01\/28\/sam-hornish-will-run-full-nationwide-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hornish will run full Nationwide schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Sam+Hornish+Jr+WYPALL+200+Powered+Kimberly+yKmRO4megYgl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"187\" \/>Fans of, three time Indy Car champion, Sam Hornish will be happy to hear that the 32 year-old will drive the entire NASCAR Nationwide schedule in the #12 Dodge of Penske Racing. Hornish drove the car on a limited basis last season after losing his Sprint Cup ride with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Penske has said that he is still committed to fielding cars for Hornish in NASCAR and hopes to have a seat for him at the Sprint Cup level in 2013. Penske currently has drivers Brad Keselowski and A.J. Allmendinger locked up to multi-year deals. Sam ran in 108 Sprint Cup races in Penske cars from 2007-2010 scoring 2 top-5&#8217;s and 10 top-10&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance truck parts who plays a large role in Penske&#8217;s truck business will sponsor Hornish&#8217;s car for 26 Nationwide races. The remaining 6 races will be sponosred by the Wurth Group, a German-based automotive and  industrial supply company.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Hornish competed in 13 Nationwide races and looked competitive. He eventually found victory lane for his first win at Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of, three time Indy Car champion, Sam Hornish will be happy to hear that the 32 year-old will drive the entire NASCAR Nationwide schedule in the #12 Dodge of Penske Racing. Hornish drove the car on a limited basis last season after losing his Sprint Cup ride with the team. Roger Penske has said [&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":[507,568],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-penske-racing","8":"tag-sam-hornish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}