{"id":19592,"date":"2019-02-22T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19592"},"modified":"2019-02-22T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:25:10","slug":"bubba-wallace-driving-team-bacon-mcdonalds-car-at-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/02\/22\/bubba-wallace-driving-team-bacon-mcdonalds-car-at-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace driving Team Bacon McDonald&#8217;s car at Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19593\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/mcd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/mcd1.jpg 625w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/mcd1-594x323.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/mcd1-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bubba Wallace and Richard Petty Motorsports will hope that Bacon really does make everything better as McDonald&#8217;s comes aboard the No. 43 car for Sunday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace will be driving a red and white Chevrolet Camaro which features the iconic golden arches and the words Team Bacon on the hood during the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19594\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/mcd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The paint scheme is highlighting McDonald&#8217;s current campaign of &#8220;Bacon on Classics&#8221; where\u00a0 bacon lovers can now pick up a Big Mac\u00ae Bacon burger, Quarter Pounder\u00ae* Bacon burger and Cheesy Bacon Fries at their local store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m lovin\u2019 it,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cI just had McDonald\u2019s for breakfast this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcDonald\u2019s is an iconic brand and I am proud to be partnered with them in Atlanta. \u2018Team Bacon\u2019 is naturally the best option, a Big Mac\u00ae Bacon burger, are you kidding me? That\u2019s phenomenal!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The McDonald\u2019s logo will also appear on Wallace\u2019s uniform, and McDonald\u2019s will serve as an associate partner for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series 2019 season on the No. 43 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s was a primary partner during the 2009 inaugural season of Richard Petty Motorsports on the No. 43 driven by Reed Sorenson, and an associate partner of the season<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bubba Wallace and Richard Petty Motorsports will hope that Bacon really does make everything better as McDonald&#8217;s comes aboard the No. 43 car for Sunday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Wallace will be driving a red and white Chevrolet Camaro which features the iconic golden arches and the words Team Bacon on the hood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[933],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-19592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bubba-wallace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","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=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}