{"id":19165,"date":"2018-12-12T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2018-12-12T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:42:28","slug":"jamie-mcmurray-joins-fox-as-broadcast-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/12\/12\/jamie-mcmurray-joins-fox-as-broadcast-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie McMurray joins FOX as broadcast analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/12\/jamiemcmurray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/12\/jamiemcmurray.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/12\/jamiemcmurray-594x395.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/12\/jamiemcmurray-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jamie McMurray will move into a role as an analyst for FOX Sports in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>McMurray, 42, most recently drove for Chip Ganassi Racing but the team announced earlier this year that he would not return to drive the car in 2019. Kurt Busch has since <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/12\/04\/kurt-busch-to-drive-no-1-at-chip-ganassi-racing-in-2019\/\">been signed to drive<\/a> the car.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Excited to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARONFOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASCARONFOX<\/a> team in 2019, and looking forward to this next chapter of my career. Thanks to all who made it possible! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WiGDIbgIQz\">https:\/\/t.co\/WiGDIbgIQz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jamie McMurray (@jamiemcmurray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiemcmurray\/status\/1072885747521343488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career that dates back to 2002, McMurray has seven career wins including the 2010 Daytona 500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs my driving career got closer to the end, I thought about doing TV but wasn\u2019t sure until I did a couple of NASCAR Race Hub shows at the end of this year,\u201d McMurray said in a release provided by FOX. \u201cI really enjoyed it more than I expected. It\u2019s a whole new world, but that\u2019s what I am most excited about \u2013 the new challenge and discomfort that comes with doing something completely out of my element.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMurray&#8217;s role with CGR is still to be determined at this time. Ganassi is said to have offered McMurray a car for the 2019 Daytona 500 and a potential management position with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McMurray will move into a role as an analyst for FOX Sports in 2019. McMurray, 42, most recently drove for Chip Ganassi Racing but the team announced earlier this year that he would not return to drive the car in 2019. Kurt Busch has since been signed to drive the car. Excited to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[1018,789,286,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chip-ganassi-racing","tag-front","tag-jamie-mcmurray","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165","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=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}