{"id":19203,"date":"2019-01-18T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19203"},"modified":"2019-01-18T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T16:37:43","slug":"ryan-truex-to-attempt-daytona-500-with-tommy-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/01\/18\/ryan-truex-to-attempt-daytona-500-with-tommy-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Truex to attempt Daytona 500 with Tommy Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14524\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/ryantruex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/ryantruex.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/ryantruex-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Truex will attempt to make the season opening Daytona 500 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Truex will drive the No. 71 Chevrolet of Tommy Baldwin Racing at the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very thankful to TBR and Tommy Baldwin for this opportunity and can\u2019t wait to get to Daytona and back in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series car,\u201d commented Ryan Truex. \u201cThe pressure is on to make it into the race, but Tommy is a true racer, and I know he will put everything into the car to give us a great shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to have Ryan back in a Tommy Baldwin Racing car,\u201d team owner Tommy Baldwin said. \u201cWe had success at Daytona in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in the past. I\u2019ve known the Truex family a very long time, and it\u2019s special that we\u2019ll be able to compete in the Daytona 500 together, and hopefully more races as the year goes on. We are still in search of a primary sponsor that we\u2019re hoping to put together in time to give TBR a great run this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Truex will attempt to make the season opening Daytona 500 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Truex will drive the No. 71 Chevrolet of Tommy Baldwin Racing at the 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. \u201cI am very thankful to TBR and Tommy Baldwin for this opportunity and can\u2019t wait to get to Daytona and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-19203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203","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=19203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}