{"id":20274,"date":"2019-04-09T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20274"},"modified":"2019-04-09T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:11:02","slug":"natalie-decker-gets-six-additional-truck-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/04\/09\/natalie-decker-gets-six-additional-truck-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Decker gets six additional Truck starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20275\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/04\/decker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/04\/decker.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/04\/decker-594x335.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/04\/decker-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/04\/decker-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Decker has had six Gander Outdoors Truck Series starts added to her schedule with DGR-Crosley Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Decker, 21, will be sponsored by N29 Technologies in the events while driving the No. 54 Toyota Tundra. That brings her total number of events up to 17 for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin native will race at Dover, Kansas, Charlotte, Texas, Iowa, Gateway, Chicagoland, Kentucky, Pocono, Bristol, Las Vegas, Martinsville, ISM and Homestead-Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Decker has made three starts in 2019, recording a best finish of 13th at Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited to add more races with DGR-Crosley,\u201d Decker said in a team release. \u201cI\u2019m very thankful for the opportunity to be with this team. David [Gilliland] does such a great job with putting the right people in the right positions, and I\u2019m learning so much and enjoy working with Frank [Kerr, crew chief] and all my guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decker is looking to improve upon her results thus far this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love competing in the Truck Series \u2013 it\u2019s challenging but so fun,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to continuing to learn as much as possible and putting together solid finishes. This year is all about learning and getting experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team co-owner David Gilliland said the added races will give Decker needed experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s great that Natalie and N29 Technologies have decided to pick up more races this season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Decker has had six Gander Outdoors Truck Series starts added to her schedule with DGR-Crosley Racing. Decker, 21, will be sponsored by N29 Technologies in the events while driving the No. 54 Toyota Tundra. That brings her total number of events up to 17 for 2019. The Wisconsin native will race at Dover, Kansas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,788],"tags":[789,708,963],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-20274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar-truck-series","category-news","tag-front","tag-nascar","tag-natalie-decker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20274","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=20274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20274"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}