{"id":16811,"date":"2015-08-21T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T03:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16811"},"modified":"2015-08-21T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T03:22:52","slug":"jeff-gordon-driving-rainbow-paint-scheme-in-bristol-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/08\/21\/jeff-gordon-driving-rainbow-paint-scheme-in-bristol-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gordon driving rainbow paint scheme in Bristol farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16812\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/08\/jeffgordon.jpg\" alt=\"jeffgordon\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/08\/jeffgordon.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/08\/jeffgordon-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/08\/jeffgordon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Jeff Gordon&#8217;s final race at Bristol looks a lot like his first it&#8217;s because his No. 24 Chevrolet SS will bare the iconic rainbow scheme which he drove to start his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon will start 24th in Saturday night&#8217;s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol. In his career\u00a0Gordon has five career wins at Bristol and has finished inside the top-five 17 times and inside the top-ten 25 times in 45 career starts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16507\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/06\/gordonrain2.jpg\" alt=\"gordonrain2\" width=\"517\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/06\/gordonrain2.jpg 517w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/06\/gordonrain2-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the name Dupont is not on the car, the car does look strikingly like the 1992-2000 colors that Gordon drove in.<\/p>\n<p>Without a win thus far Gordon currently sits 15th in the Sprint Cup Series point standings. While he has a nice gap between him and 16th place Clint Bowyer, wins by drivers outside of the top-16 in points could knock Gordon out of the year end Chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Jeff Gordon&#8217;s final race at Bristol looks a lot like his first it&#8217;s because his No. 24 Chevrolet SS will bare the iconic rainbow scheme which he drove to start his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career. Gordon will start 24th in Saturday night&#8217;s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol. In his career\u00a0Gordon has five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[304,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-16811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-jeff-gordon","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811","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=16811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}