{"id":18656,"date":"2018-08-14T15:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2018-08-14T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:50:36","slug":"bill-elliott-running-throwback-paint-scheme-at-road-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/08\/14\/bill-elliott-running-throwback-paint-scheme-at-road-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Elliott running throwback paint scheme at Road America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18657\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1-1024x689.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1-594x399.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1-768x516.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bill Elliott will not be racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series throwback race at Darlington Raceway. Instead the 62-year-old will pull out his 1994 Darlington paint scheme for the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Road America.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott who will be driving the No. 23 Chevrolet Camaro for GSM Racing has said this will be his last NASCAR race.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome back, Awesome Bill! <\/p>\n<p>Bill Elliott will run his 1994 Southern 500 paint scheme at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roadamerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@roadamerica<\/a> on August 25th with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMSRacingLLC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GMSRacingLLC<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C6PKHQCdO1\">pic.twitter.com\/C6PKHQCdO1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NASCAR Xfinity (@NASCAR_Xfinity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR_Xfinity\/status\/1029430189317648384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The car Elliott will drive will appear as if it were a car he drove for Junior Johnson. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"869\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18658\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott2.jpg 717w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott2-345x418.jpg 345w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott2-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this opportunity came up from Mike (Beam), I had to jump on it,\u201d said Bill Elliott in a statement from the team. \u201cChase (Elliott) has ran a handful of races for the team so I figured I would give it a shot at Road America. Beam and I have worked together in the past so it will be exciting to get back behind the wheel and bring back some old memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1994 marked Elliott&#8217;s last season with Johnson. He later formed his own team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18660\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1994.jpg 480w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott1994-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Elliott will not be racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series throwback race at Darlington Raceway. Instead the 62-year-old will pull out his 1994 Darlington paint scheme for the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Road America. Elliott who will be driving the No. 23 Chevrolet Camaro for GSM Racing has said this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[67,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bill-elliott","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","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=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}