{"id":21648,"date":"2019-07-15T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21648"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:33:52","slug":"paul-menard-has-2020-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/07\/15\/paul-menard-has-2020-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Menard has 2020 contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4603.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21647\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4603.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4603-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4603-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4603-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/img_4603-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday at Kentucky Speedway, veteran Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Paul Menard told reporters he had a contact for the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>Menard, 38, indicated plans to return to the No. 21 Ford of Wood Brothers Racing for a third season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cI have a good job, for sure,\u201d Menard said after final Monster Energy Series practice at Kentucky Speedway. \u201cI love the Wood Brothers. I love my race team. They are good people. I have a contract for next year. I guess it is getting to be that time of year when people start talking about things. I have a contract and I love my team. We just have to perform better, that is all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Menard has a best finish of sixth this season at Bristol. Competing in his 13th full season in the MENCS, Menard is currently 20th in the point standings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cIt is certainly not where we want to be,\u201d said Menard about being on the outside of the playoff picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday at Kentucky Speedway, veteran Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Paul Menard told reporters he had a contact for the 2020 season. Menard, 38, indicated plans to return to the No. 21 Ford of Wood Brothers Racing for a third season. \u201cI have a good job, for sure,\u201d Menard said after final Monster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[708,503,1023],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-21648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-nascar","tag-paul-menard","tag-wood-brothers-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648","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=21648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}