{"id":22816,"date":"2019-11-12T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22816"},"modified":"2019-11-12T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:04:09","slug":"william-byron-to-run-flames-of-independence-scheme-at-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/12\/william-byron-to-run-flames-of-independence-scheme-at-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"William Byron to run Flames of Independence scheme at Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22818\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22818\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence.jpg 900w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/williambyronflamesofindependence-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#24: William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet Camaro Axalta Patriotic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the Axalta &#8220;nice tweets&#8221; featuring William Byron it was revealed that the Flames of Independence scheme would run again at Homestead to close out the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.<\/p>\n<p>While all the focus will be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/11\/nascar-championship-4-the-best-four-made-it\/\">championship battle<\/a>, Byron and Axalta will undoubtedly catch some eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Byron&#8217;s drove the patriotic car in the 2019 Coke Zero 400. Featuring a white background and familiar yellow No. 24, the Chevrolet featured red and blue flames on the sides in the event which nearly saw Byron score his first career win. Byron would have to settle for second in the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Back by popular demand. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Axalta24?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Axalta24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YSNpTaVJZ4\">pic.twitter.com\/YSNpTaVJZ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Axalta Racing (@AxaltaRacing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AxaltaRacing\/status\/1194299242828959744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With one race left in the season Byron&#8217;s sophomore season has been a vast improvement on his rookie season. Byron notched five pole awards and the first five top-five finishes of his career while earning a spot in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zoLcPJM63c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Axalta &#8220;nice tweets&#8221; featuring William Byron it was revealed that the Flames of Independence scheme would run again at Homestead to close out the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season. While all the focus will be on the championship battle, Byron and Axalta will undoubtedly catch some eyes. Byron&#8217;s drove the patriotic car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,258,708,950],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-22816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-homestead-miami-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-william-byron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816","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=22816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22816"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}