{"id":17979,"date":"2018-02-13T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17979"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:22:13","slug":"peyton-manning-driving-pace-car-at-nascars-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/02\/13\/peyton-manning-driving-pace-car-at-nascars-daytona-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Peyton Manning driving pace car at NASCAR’s Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peyton Manning will serve as the Honorary Pace Car Driver for the 60th annual Daytona 500 on Feb. 18 at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n

Manning, a two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback, serves as a member\/spokesperson for Nationwide. Before the green flag drops on The Great American Race, it will be Manning’s job to pace the 40-car field.<\/p>\n

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\u201cServing as the Honorary Pace Car Driver will be a truly unique and exciting experience,\u201d Manning said. \u201cI want to thank NASCAR, Daytona International Speedway and Nationwide for making this possible. I\u2019m really looking forward to race day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Manning retired from football after the Broncos won Super Bowl 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking true star power with this announcement, as Peyton Manning is one of the legends of both college football and the NFL,\u201d said Daytona International Speedway President Chip Wile. \u201cHe also has the persona and popularity to match his achievements. He\u2019ll be an awesome Honorary Pace Car Driver and a great addition to our lineup of high-profile guests for the 60th DAYTONA 500.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peyton Manning will serve as the Honorary Pace Car Driver for the 60th annual Daytona 500 on Feb. 18 at Daytona International Speedway. Manning, a two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback, serves as a member\/spokesperson for Nationwide. Before the green flag drops on The Great American Race, it will be Manning’s job to pace the 40-car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[190,708,508],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-daytona-500","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-peyton-manning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17979","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=17979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17979"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}