{"id":17853,"date":"2018-01-17T16:29:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17853"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:29:46","slug":"earnhardt-jr-suarez-among-nascar-drivers-who-cant-drive-in-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/01\/17\/earnhardt-jr-suarez-among-nascar-drivers-who-cant-drive-in-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnhardt Jr, Suarez among NASCAR drivers who can&#8217;t drive in snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/daleearnhardtjr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17854\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/daleearnhardtjr.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/daleearnhardtjr-594x385.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/daleearnhardtjr-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/daleearnhardtjr-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThey are use to driving in ovals. Add in a little snow on the Carolina roads and these NASCAR stars begin acting like a game of bumper cars.<\/p>\n<p>Around Noon, Ryan Blaney tweeted that he saw Dale Earnhardt Jr. helping a car get unstuck from a snowy ditch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In case y\u2019all didn\u2019t think <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaleJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DaleJr<\/a> was a great person already, just saw him covered in snow trying to help a car get out of a ditch. Said he didn\u2019t need my help. Haha<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Blaney (@Blaney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blaney\/status\/953672914892656642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course no good deed goes unpunished and Earnhardt quickly found himself the victim of the icy roads hitting a tree.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NC stay off the roads today\/tonight. 5 minutes after helping these folks I center punched a pine tree. All good. Probably just needs a new alignment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OfA5Q28jew\">pic.twitter.com\/OfA5Q28jew<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaleJr\/status\/953675255809236993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now retired, Earnhardt will be among the NASCAR drivers who do not support rain tires we guess. Earnhardt was hardly the only NASCAR star to find themselves off the road. Enter Daniel Suarez.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I got you mi amigo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ksEhk5Q03j\">https:\/\/t.co\/ksEhk5Q03j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Blaney (@Blaney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blaney\/status\/953673123165016064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s a Lexus &#8211; subsidiary of Toyota. Given that Subway allegedly pulled their sponsorship due to him passing out donuts&#8230;. have to wonder how Toyota feels about this photo below&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Working on it.. &#x2744;&#xfe0f;&#x26c4;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sh3Cv1K8TJ\">pic.twitter.com\/sh3Cv1K8TJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Su\u00e1rez (@Daniel_SuarezG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daniel_SuarezG\/status\/953668557480628226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We are less than five weeks away from the Daytona 500. Something tells me that these guys will be more than ready for pavement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are use to driving in ovals. Add in a little snow on the Carolina roads and these NASCAR stars begin acting like a game of bumper cars. Around Noon, Ryan Blaney tweeted that he saw Dale Earnhardt Jr. helping a car get unstuck from a snowy ditch. In case y\u2019all didn\u2019t think @DaleJr was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[170,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853","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=17853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}