{"id":19124,"date":"2018-11-16T16:32:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19124"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:32:33","slug":"denny-hamlin-and-crew-chief-mike-wheeler-to-split-after-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/11\/16\/denny-hamlin-and-crew-chief-mike-wheeler-to-split-after-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin and crew chief Mike Wheeler to split after Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19125\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/hamlinwheeler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/hamlinwheeler.jpg 922w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/hamlinwheeler-594x323.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/hamlinwheeler-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/hamlinwheeler-768x418.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2018 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway will not only determine the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion, it will also be lasts for several teams.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/11\/16\/many-members-of-furniture-row-racing-still-looking-for-jobs\/\">Furniture Row Racing will close it&#8217;s doors<\/a> following the race but other personnel will also be on the move. Sunday&#8217;s race will also mark the final time Mike Wheeler serves as the crew chief of the No. 11 Toyota driven by Denny Hamlin.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin, who still needs a win in order to continue a streak of 12 years with a win, posted on twitter Friday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;5 wins, 37 top 5s, 61 top 10s. Thank you <a class=\"PrettyLink profile customisable h-card\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCWheeler\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"64413587\" data-scribe=\"element:mention\"><span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value\">MikeCWheeler<\/span><\/a> for the last couple of years. You were there for me in the beginning when I first started with JGR 14 years ago. It\u2019s been a great ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">5 wins, 37 top 5s, 61 top 10s. Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCWheeler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MikeCWheeler<\/a> for the last couple of years. You were there for me in the beginning when I first started with JGR 14 years ago. It\u2019s been a great ride. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLQOIiDbiu\">pic.twitter.com\/FLQOIiDbiu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dennyhamlin\/status\/1063524382004277248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wheeler became the crew chief of the No. 11 in 2016 after previously being an engineer. Prior to Wheeler, Dave Rodgers and Darian Grubb had been crew chiefs for Hamlin&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>No replacement for Wheeler has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway will not only determine the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion, it will also be lasts for several teams. Most notably Furniture Row Racing will close it&#8217;s doors following the race but other personnel will also be on the move. Sunday&#8217;s race will also mark the final time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[194,789,1015,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-19124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-front","tag-mike-wheeler","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19124","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=19124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}