{"id":2302,"date":"2012-07-25T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2012-07-25T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:30:51","slug":"a-j-allmendinger-will-participate-in-road-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/07\/25\/a-j-allmendinger-will-participate-in-road-to-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. Allmendinger will participate in Road To Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday after AJ Allmendinger&#8217;s B test came back positive, by NASCARS rule book Allmendinger was suspended indefinitely until he completes  NASCARS &#8220;Road to Recovery&#8221; program. <\/p>\n<p>Today it was released that AJ will take part in the program starting immediately. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the statement from VP of Walldinger Racing, Tara Ragan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCharlotte, NC (July 25, 2012) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we await further information from testing to determine the cause, we have notified NASCAR that AJ will participate in the Road to Recovery Program starting immediately. As we have stated earlier, we respect NASCAR&#8217;s drug testing policies. They are first and foremost in place to protect drivers and AJ being among those.  We fully support the program, and  and as more details become available, we will share them. We would like to personally thank Mr. Helton and John Bobo for helping worked through this in an expeditious manner.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>-Tara Ragan, Vice President, Walldinger Racing Inc<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Shank posted the following on his twitter:<br \/>\nI still fully support@AJDinger now and in the future. Tough times<br \/>\nfor him and his Walldinger group. They r tough but will come back strong.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to have @AJDinger in my car for the 51st Daytona 24 Hour<br \/>\nrace to defend our win.. Could not do it without him..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday after AJ Allmendinger&#8217;s B test came back positive, by NASCARS rule book Allmendinger was suspended indefinitely until he completes NASCARS &#8220;Road to Recovery&#8221; program. Today it was released that AJ will take part in the program starting immediately. Below is the statement from VP of Walldinger Racing, Tara Ragan. Charlotte, NC (July 25, 2012) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[30,12,507],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-aj-allmendinger","tag-nascar-featured","tag-penske-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}