{"id":22503,"date":"2019-10-27T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22503"},"modified":"2019-10-27T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:40:06","slug":"crafton-will-race-in-place-of-tifft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/10\/27\/crafton-will-race-in-place-of-tifft\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafton will race in place of Tifft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6121-3.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22505\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6121-3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6121-3-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6121-3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6121-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Crafton will race the No. 36 Ford Mustang of Front Row Motorsports in Sunday&#8217;s First Data 500 at Martinsville Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the normal driver of that car, Matt Tifft was taken to an area hospital after a trip to the infield care center. Crafton practiced and qualified the car.<\/p>\n<p>Tifft, who is competing for Rookie of the Year honors, shared news of his condition on Saturday night via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(28, 32, 34); color: rgb(28, 32, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Roboto,\" segoe ui calibri sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: pre-wrap widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Hey everybody. Just wanted to give a quick update. Still learning more of what exactly happened, but as some of you saw\/ heard I had to be taken to the hospital this am. I am resting at home now and have follow ups soon,<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(28, 32, 34); color: rgb(28, 32, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Roboto,\" segoe ui calibri sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: pre-wrap widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(28, 32, 34); color: rgb(28, 32, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Roboto,\" segoe ui calibri sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: pre-wrap widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>&#x1f91e;<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(28, 32, 34); color: rgb(28, 32, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Roboto,\" segoe ui calibri sans-serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: left text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: pre-wrap widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>to get back to full health and back in the car soon<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crafton qualified 31st in Saturday&#8217;s qualifying session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Crafton will race the No. 36 Ford Mustang of Front Row Motorsports in Sunday&#8217;s First Data 500 at Martinsville Speedway. On Saturday the normal driver of that car, Matt Tifft was taken to an area hospital after a trip to the infield care center. Crafton practiced and qualified the car. Tifft, who is competing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,409,415,1017,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-martinsville-speedway","11":"tag-matt-crafton","12":"tag-matt-tifft","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22503","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=22503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22503"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}