{"id":21817,"date":"2019-08-07T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21817"},"modified":"2019-08-07T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T17:02:04","slug":"jeffrey-earnhardt-and-ik9-part-ways-jgr-looking-for-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/08\/07\/jeffrey-earnhardt-and-ik9-part-ways-jgr-looking-for-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Earnhardt and iK9 part ways, JGR looking for driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/08\/img_5071.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21816\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\"><\/p>\n<p>Joe Gibbs Racing is looking for a replacement driver for the No. 18 iK9 Toyota Camry for this weekend&#8217;s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Earnhardt confirmed the rumors on Tuesday saying that the sponsor and him have parted ways.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just wanted to let ya\u2019ll know that iK9 and I have parted ways and wanted to thank them for the opportunity to race with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeGibbsRacing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeGibbsRacing<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToyotaRacing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ToyotaRacing<\/a> . Wish them the best in their future.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeffrey Earnhardt (@JEarnhardt1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JEarnhardt1\/status\/1159119218387894272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Gibbs Racing is looking for a replacement driver for the No. 18 iK9 Toyota Camry for this weekend&#8217;s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio. Jeffrey Earnhardt confirmed the rumors on Tuesday saying that the sponsor and him have parted ways. Just wanted to let ya\u2019ll know that iK9 and I have parted ways and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[722,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-21817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xfinity","category-news","tag-jeffrey-earnhardt","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","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=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}