{"id":17869,"date":"2018-01-23T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:31:14","slug":"thorsport-partners-with-ford-for-2018-truck-season-crafton-rhodes-and-enfinger-announced-as-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/01\/23\/thorsport-partners-with-ford-for-2018-truck-season-crafton-rhodes-and-enfinger-announced-as-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"ThorSport partners with Ford for 2018 Truck Season, Crafton, Rhodes and Enfinger announced as drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/mattcrafton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17870\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/mattcrafton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/mattcrafton-594x403.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/mattcrafton-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ThorSport Racing has partnered with Ford for the upcoming 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWith 23 years in the NCWTS, we look forward to our new partnership with Ford Performance in NASCAR,\u201d said team owner Duke Thorson. \u201cOur pursuit of wins and championships remains at the forefront of our objectives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ThorSport has more recently run Toyota and Chevrolet trucks in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited that ThorSport Racing has decided to switch to a F-Series truck for the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series,\u201d said Mark Rushbrook, global director, Ford Performance Motorsports. \u201cThorSport is a proven championship-level team in the series, and we look forward to providing them the aero and simulation technical support that will ensure they remain at the top level of the Truck Series.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Matt Crafton returns to the team for 14th consecutive season with continuing sponsorship from Menards. The team also announced on twitter that Grant Enfinger and Ben Rhodes would fill out their driver lineup for 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantEnfinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GrantEnfinger<\/a> will be back behind the wheel of the No. 98 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionPowerEQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChampionPowerEQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurbRecords?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CurbRecords<\/a> Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing in 2018! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tw6xHDBT2P\">https:\/\/t.co\/tw6xHDBT2P<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZkbRf52KG8\">pic.twitter.com\/ZkbRf52KG8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ThorSport Racing (@ThorSportRacing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorSportRacing\/status\/955896665537503234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BenisBack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BenisBack<\/a>! We\u2019re excited to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benrhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benrhodes<\/a> is back, this year piloting the No. 41 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FordPerformance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FordPerformance<\/a> machine! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2TmqS0MPyd\">https:\/\/t.co\/2TmqS0MPyd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSdRhUqyKt\">pic.twitter.com\/RSdRhUqyKt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ThorSport Racing (@ThorSportRacing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThorSportRacing\/status\/955872079341146114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The season opening race for ThorSport is the<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0NextEra Energy Resources 250 on Friday, Feb. 16 at Daytona International Speedway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThorSport Racing has partnered with Ford for the upcoming 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. \u201cWith 23 years in the NCWTS, we look forward to our new partnership with Ford Performance in NASCAR,\u201d said team owner Duke Thorson. \u201cOur pursuit of wins and championships remains at the forefront of our objectives.\u201d ThorSport has more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,788],"tags":[789,415,708,622],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-truck-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-matt-crafton","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-thorsport-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869","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=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}