{"id":1911,"date":"2012-07-07T18:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2012-07-07T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:04:38","slug":"aj-allmendinger-fails-drug-test-replaced-by-hornish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/07\/07\/aj-allmendinger-fails-drug-test-replaced-by-hornish\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Allmendinger fails drug test, replaced by Hornish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AJ Allmendinger, driver of the #22 Shell\/Pennzoil Dodge, stands in the garage during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway on July 5, 2012 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (July 4, 2012 - Source: Jerry Markland\/Getty Images North America) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger of Penske Racing has failed a random drug test. The driver of the #22 car will be replaced by Sam Hornish for tonight’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n

Allmendinger is in the middle of a one year deal with Penske Racing and his future was already uncertain. This may end it. The 30 year old driver had run in 17 races this year in a Penske Dodge with a best finish of 9th at Sonoma and Kentucky. He is currently 23rd in the driver standings.<\/p>\n

Hornish is running the full Nationwide schedule in the #12 for Penske. He is currently 4th overall in the Nationwide Standings.<\/p>\n

It is currently unclear what Allmendinger was tested for. The failed test was taken during the Kentucky race weekend.<\/p>\n

An official announcement is forthcoming.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former teammate Scott Speed had the following to say on twitter:<\/p>\n

Scott Speed<\/strong> \u200f<\/span>@scottspeed<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>I am calling BS.. No way he does drugs! Dont make sence<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Current Penske Teammate Brad Keselowski does not wish to talk right now about the issue<\/p>\n

Brad Keselowski<\/strong> \u200f<\/span>@keselowski<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>Note- No comments on 22 car tonight as we focus on tonight’s race. Thank u in advance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger of Penske Racing has failed a random drug test. The driver of the #22 car will be replaced by Sam Hornish for tonight’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway. Allmendinger is in the middle of a one year deal with Penske Racing and his future was already uncertain. This may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[30,568],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-aj-allmendinger","8":"tag-sam-hornish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","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=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}