{"id":23454,"date":"2020-02-22T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23454"},"modified":"2020-02-22T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:36:26","slug":"harvick-lemonis-place-bounty-on-beating-busch-in-truck-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/02\/22\/harvick-lemonis-place-bounty-on-beating-busch-in-truck-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvick, Lemonis place bounty on beating Busch in truck series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23457\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23457\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/busch-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/busch-1.jpg 610w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/busch-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/busch-1-594x334.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VEGAS, NV &#8211; FEBRUARY 21: Kyle Busch (51) Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) Toyota Tundra racing during the NASCAR Gander RV &amp; Outdoors Truck Series Strat 200 on February 21, 2020, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by David Allio\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kyle Busch has won the last seven NASCAR Gander RV &amp; Outdoors Truck Series races he has competed in. While that may be impressive, one fellow Cup Series competitor is out to stop that streak.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick tweeted out on Saturday morning that he would put up $50,000 for any Cup driver who could beat Busch in his remaining four truck races this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I like this so let\u2019s make this fun. I\u2019ll put up a $50,000 bounty for any full time cup driver who races a truck and can beat <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleBusch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KyleBusch<\/a> in his next 4 races. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gameon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gameon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BRjLCTxFJQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/BRjLCTxFJQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Harvick (@KevinHarvick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinHarvick\/status\/1231266777130127360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Harvick&#8217;s tweet immediately got the interest of Marcus Lemonis, owner of Camping World and Gander RV &amp; Outdoors, who said he would match that bet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinHarvick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KevinHarvick<\/a> I\u2019ll match that&#8230; I\u2019m that comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleBusch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KyleBusch<\/a> can\u2019t be beat&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR_Trucks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASCAR_Trucks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GanderRV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GanderRV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASCAR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OwF2WHOXdJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/OwF2WHOXdJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcus Lemonis (@marcuslemonis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcuslemonis\/status\/1231282831705309184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So now we have $100,000 on the table if anyone can defeat Kyle Busch in a Truck Series race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Busch has won the last seven NASCAR Gander RV &amp; Outdoors Truck Series races he has competed in. While that may be impressive, one fellow Cup Series competitor is out to stop that streak. Kevin Harvick tweeted out on Saturday morning that he would put up $50,000 for any Cup driver who could beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,13,788],"tags":[789,365,375,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-23454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-nascar-truck-series","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-kevin-harvick","12":"tag-kyle-busch","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23454","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=23454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23454"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}