{"id":21941,"date":"2019-08-15T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21941"},"modified":"2019-08-15T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:59:49","slug":"dibenedetto-confirms-hes-out-at-lfr-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/08\/15\/dibenedetto-confirms-hes-out-at-lfr-at-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"DiBenedetto confirms he&#8217;s out at LFR at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21943\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/08\/dibenedetto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/08\/dibenedetto.jpg 639w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/08\/dibenedetto-594x395.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/08\/dibenedetto-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt DiBenedetto confirmed on Thursday that he would not return to Leavine Family Racing and the No. 95 Toyota in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>DiBenedetto is running his fifth full-time season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series posting a career best four top-10 finishes thus far and his only top-five finishes in NASCAR&#8217;s top series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTkPcQoqCk\">pic.twitter.com\/rTkPcQoqCk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt DiBenedetto (@mattdracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdracing\/status\/1162008561741963264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LFR entered into an alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing this season switching to Toyota as a manufacturer. The No. 95 car has had plenty of rumors suggesting that a JGR driver will take over the seat in 2020. Christopher Bell and Erik Jones, currently in the No. 20 Toyota at JGR, have both been linked to the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt DiBenedetto confirmed on Thursday that he would not return to Leavine Family Racing and the No. 95 Toyota in 2020. DiBenedetto is running his fifth full-time season in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series posting a career best four top-10 finishes thus far and his only top-five finishes in NASCAR&#8217;s top series. pic.twitter.com\/rTkPcQoqCk \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,946,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-21941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-front","tag-matt-dibenedetto","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941","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=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}