{"id":17783,"date":"2018-01-01T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17783"},"modified":"2018-01-01T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T19:18:55","slug":"photos-chase-elliott-no-9-chevrolet-paint-schemes-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/01\/01\/photos-chase-elliott-no-9-chevrolet-paint-schemes-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Chase Elliott No. 9 Chevrolet paint schemes revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17784\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott1-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott1.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott gets a number change for the 2018 season moving to the No. 9 Chevrolet at Hendrick Motorsports. The move puts William Byron in the No. 24 and reunites Elliott with the No. 9 which he drove in the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 9 has a history not just for Chase but for the family as his father Bill Elliott drove the number during much of his NASCAR Cup Series career.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17785\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott2-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott2.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Longtime sponsor NAPA follows Elliott to the No. 9 car as does Hooters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17786\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott3-1024x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott3-1024x488.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott3-594x283.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott3-300x143.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott3-768x366.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/elliott3.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 season will mark Elliott&#8217;s third full year at the Cup level. While Elliott has yet to find victory lane, he did set career highs with 12 top-5&#8217;s and 21 top-10&#8217;s last season while finishing fifth in the point standings.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a matter of when, not if, Elliott will find his first career win.<\/p>\n<p>As a youngster in the Xfinity Seires, Elliott won four races during his two fill time seasons there en-route to a series championship (2015) and a second place finish (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Elliott gets a number change for the 2018 season moving to the No. 9 Chevrolet at Hendrick Motorsports. The move puts William Byron in the No. 24 and reunites Elliott with the No. 9 which he drove in the Xfinity Series. The No. 9 has a history not just for Chase but for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[128,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-chase-elliott","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783","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=17783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}