{"id":21383,"date":"2019-06-13T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21383"},"modified":"2019-06-13T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:02:58","slug":"stephen-leicht-picks-up-iowa-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/06\/13\/stephen-leicht-picks-up-iowa-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Leicht picks up Iowa sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21384\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/stephenleicht.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/stephenleicht.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/stephenleicht-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/06\/stephenleicht-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gaffney, SC \u2013 JD Motorsports with Gary Keller (JDM) is proud to welcome SEM Products back on board the team\u2019s flagship No. 4 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Stephen Leicht this Sunday at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>SEM, a specialty coatings manufacturer based in Rock Hill, SC, has been sponsoring JDM in the NASCAR Xfinity Series since 2011, and this weekend will mark their first race of the season where they grace the hood and quarter panels of Leicht\u2019s Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n<p>Leicht, who has raced in every NXS race this season driving the No. 01 entry, will get his first shot at driving in the No. 4 that currently sits 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the owners\u2019 championship points standings. Entering the weekend, he sits 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0in drivers\u2019 points, coming off of a solid Top 20 run in Michigan last time out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome some old friends from SEM back on with our team this weekend in Iowa. They have been really good to everybody at JD Motorsports in the past, and have built a very solid relationship with our crew. Stephen has had some good runs this season, and with his short track racing background, I am confident that we will have a good race when it is all said and done.\u201d \u2013 JDM Team Owner Johnny Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa Speedway has historically been a great track to JDM, and even more specifically, the No. 4 team. Since 2014, the team has earned two Top 5 and five Top 10 finishes at the 7\/8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0mile speedway. In addition to JDM\u2019s impressive stats, Stephen Leicht also has one Top 10 finish to his name in Iowa, which came at the track\u2019s inaugural event in 2009. This weekend, he looks to build on these stats and hopefully earn his first Top 10 finish of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaffney, SC \u2013 JD Motorsports with Gary Keller (JDM) is proud to welcome SEM Products back on board the team\u2019s flagship No. 4 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Stephen Leicht this Sunday at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. SEM, a specialty coatings manufacturer based in Rock Hill, SC, has been sponsoring JDM in the NASCAR Xfinity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[881,994,591],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-21383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-iowa-speedway","10":"tag-jd-motorsports","11":"tag-stephen-leicht"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21383","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=21383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21383"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}