{"id":22581,"date":"2019-10-31T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22581"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:39:30","slug":"brandon-jones-back-in-jgr-xfinity-ride-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/10\/31\/brandon-jones-back-in-jgr-xfinity-ride-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Jones back in JGR Xfinity ride for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6186.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22580\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6186.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6186-594x395.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6186-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_6186-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Jones will return to the No. 19 Xfinity Series Toyota at Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is currently spending his second full season at JGR and his fourth in the Xfinity Series. Recently he scored his first career win in the series at Kansas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans, \"Helvetica Neue\", 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 couldn\u2018t be happier to be back and race in 2020 with Joe Gibbs Racing,\u201d stated Brandon Jones. \u201cI am very proud of my team and the huge strides and experience we have gained over the past two years. I am ready for this next opportunity and challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: YahooSans, \"Helvetica Neue\", 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\">\u201cWe are excited to have Brandon back at Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) in 2020 and with his experience take over as the senior driver in our NASCAR Xfinity Series program,\u201d stated Steve deSouza, Executive Vice President of XFINITY and Development for Joe Gibbs Racing.&nbsp; \u201cHe has steadily improved over the past two years and has proven that he can compete with the top contenders in the series.&nbsp; We expect him to be a top challenger for the championship next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Jones will return to the No. 19 Xfinity Series Toyota at Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2019 season. Jones is currently spending his second full season at JGR and his fourth in the Xfinity Series. Recently he scored his first career win in the series at Kansas. \u201cI couldn\u2018t be happier to be back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[91,319,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-brandon-jones","10":"tag-joe-gibbs-racing","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22581","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=22581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22581"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}