{"id":18720,"date":"2018-08-25T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18720"},"modified":"2018-08-25T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T21:57:03","slug":"bill-elliott-finishes-22nd-in-final-race-at-road-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/08\/25\/bill-elliott-finishes-22nd-in-final-race-at-road-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Elliott finishes 20th in final race at Road America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18722\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott23-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott23-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott23-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott23-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott23-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott23.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final race in the career of 62-year-old NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott saw the 44-time Cup Series winner finish 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Driving the No. 23 car of GMS Racing, Elliott sported a throwback scheme of his 1994 Darlington Southern 500 race winning car for Junior Johnson. Elliott began the race from the 23rd position.<\/p>\n<p>Out of NASCAR competition since 2012, the 1988 NASCAR Cup Series champion surprised fans when it was announced he would return to action for a one off event at Road America.<\/p>\n<p>Since Elliott had never competed at Road America his Chevrolet was outfitted with a yellow rookie stripe on his bumper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The final race in the career of 62-year-old NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott saw the 44-time Cup Series winner finish 20th. Driving the No. 23 car of GMS Racing, Elliott sported a throwback scheme of his 1994 Darlington Southern 500 race winning car for Junior Johnson. Elliott began the race from the 23rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-18720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar-topstory","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720","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=18720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18720"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}