{"id":23749,"date":"2020-05-12T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23749"},"modified":"2020-05-12T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:02:23","slug":"b-j-mcleod-motorsports-expanding-to-cup-series-at-darlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/05\/12\/b-j-mcleod-motorsports-expanding-to-cup-series-at-darlington\/","title":{"rendered":"B.J. McLeod Motorsports expanding to Cup Series at Darlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23750\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bjmcleod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bjmcleod.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bjmcleod-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bjmcleod-594x394.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bjmcleod-632x420.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>B.J. McLeod Motorsports announced on Tuesday that they would be expanding their operations to the NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>With NASCAR set to return to the track this coming weekend at Darlington Raceway, the team will field the No. 78 car for B.J. McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number is important to me,\u201d says B.J. McLeod. \u201cI\u2019ve been driving the No. 78 since my karting days and been able to run the number at every level of my career. I am excited to expand the team with the No. 78 into the Cup Series as a driver and an owner. As a team, our goal was to eventually move into the Cup Series, so when the opportunity presented itself, we decided it was time to take the next step. We are excited to go Cup racing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently the team fields three cars in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. No information has been released about sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.J. McLeod Motorsports announced on Tuesday that they would be expanding their operations to the NASCAR Cup Series. With NASCAR set to return to the track this coming weekend at Darlington Raceway, the team will field the No. 78 car for B.J. McLeod. \u201cThe number is important to me,\u201d says B.J. McLeod. \u201cI\u2019ve been driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[1204,1205],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-23749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-b-j-mcleod","11":"tag-b-j-mcleod-motorsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749","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=23749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23749"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}