{"id":24083,"date":"2020-06-03T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=24083"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:19:40","slug":"david-ragan-to-miss-truck-race-at-atlanta-due-to-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/06\/03\/david-ragan-to-miss-truck-race-at-atlanta-due-to-points\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ragan to miss Truck race at Atlanta due to points"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One casualty for the way the field has been set up in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series is David Ragan and the No. 17 team of DGR-Crosley.<\/p>\n

Ragan was set to drive the Select Blinds Ford F-150 at Atlanta but will be unable to compete in the race after NASCAR ruled the team and several others did not have enough points to compete in the race.<\/p>\n

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“Obviously, I\u2019m disappointed that it didn\u2019t work out for me to run the Select Blinds Ford F-150 at Atlanta this weekend. I understand in these unique circumstances that NASCAR must set the field before the weekend and not have any qualifying. We felt like DGR-Crosley would bring a truck capable of winning the race and so it\u2019s frustrating not to get the chance to make any laps, or show what kind of speed we would have, but I respect NASCAR\u2019s process and we look forward to coming back to race when things get back to normal and we can have some practice and qualifying.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

NASCAR has expanded the number of teams allowed to race in the lower series to 40 but there were 47 entries for the Vet Tix Camping World 200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One casualty for the way the field has been set up in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series is David Ragan and the No. 17 team of DGR-Crosley. Ragan was set to drive the Select Blinds Ford F-150 at Atlanta but will be unable to compete in the race after NASCAR ruled the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[52,184],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-24083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-truck-series","8":"tag-atlanta-motor-speedway","9":"tag-david-ragan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083","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=24083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}