{"id":17993,"date":"2018-02-14T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17993"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:47:12","slug":"watch-dale-earnhardt-jr-stars-in-new-goodyear-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/02\/14\/watch-dale-earnhardt-jr-stars-in-new-goodyear-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Dale Earnhardt Jr. stars in new Goodyear commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17888\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/earnhardtjr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/earnhardtjr.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/earnhardtjr-557x418.jpg 557w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/01\/earnhardtjr-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr. is not racing at the Cup level anymore but you&#8217;d be hard pressed to say he is not still an endorsement draw.<\/p>\n<p>The son of, seven-time Monster Energy Cup Series Champion, Dale Earnhardt stars in a\u00a0 new Goodyear commercial that shows clips from throughout his career and his time as a youngster in the garage supporting his father.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MkFzZtSz3A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not hurting for money \u2014\u00a0it&#8217;s not like I need to do these deals for any financial gain,&#8221; Earnhardt Jr. told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/racing\/nascar\/story\/_\/id\/22426904\/nascar-dale-earnhardt-jr-pays-tribute-late-father-goodyear-got-name-commercial-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN<\/a>\u00a0regarding his decision to appear in the Goodyear ad. &#8220;I just make sure the message, if we do include Earnhardt history and talk about Dad, it has got to be done in a proper manner for me to be comfortable doing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like to tell the story. It makes for a good story. It makes sense to me with Goodyear because he was a big fan of Goodyear. &#8230; He would be right there beside me if he could, telling the same story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those who were paying attention, you may have noticed how we did not say Earnhardt was not racing this year. Earnhardt is <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/01\/29\/dale-earnhardt-jr-to-run-fall-race-at-martinsville\/\">scheduled to drive an Xfinity car<\/a> in 2018 at Martinsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr. is not racing at the Cup level anymore but you&#8217;d be hard pressed to say he is not still an endorsement draw. The son of, seven-time Monster Energy Cup Series Champion, Dale Earnhardt stars in a\u00a0 new Goodyear commercial that shows clips from throughout his career and his time as a youngster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[170,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","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=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}