{"id":2805,"date":"2012-08-12T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2012-08-12T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T15:33:07","slug":"jamie-mcmurray-re-signs-with-chip-ganassi-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/08\/12\/jamie-mcmurray-re-signs-with-chip-ganassi-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie McMurray re-signs with Chip Ganassi Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McMurray driver of the No.1 Bass Pro Shops\/McDonald&#8217;s Chevrolet Impala, told reporters for <em>The Sporting News<\/em> that he had resigned with Ganassi Racing for next season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jamie+McMurray+New+Hampshire+Motor+Speedway+ryFerR9mC7Zl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2806\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jamie+McMurray+New+Hampshire+Motor+Speedway+ryFerR9mC7Zl-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>He was brief in comment and told them that &#8220;I&#8217;m set for here,&#8221; McMurray said. &#8220;It&#8217;s done. I haven&#8217;t really made a big deal about it. Drivers take different approaches to that. Some like all the publicity taking about. I don&#8217;t. But everything is set for next year and I&#8217;m excited to be back here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 when he captured three wins, at Daytona, Charlotte, Indianapolis was his best season in racing thus far.\u00a0\u00a0 This season, McMurray has 3 top tens\u00a0 and sits 19th in the standings -308 points behind leader Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>McMurray is starting 10th in today&#8217;s Finger Lakes 355K at Watkins Glen International Raceway. His teammate, Juan Pablo Montoya will be leading everyone off for the second week in a row starting on the pole, in first position.<\/p>\n<p>It was said that Ganassi officials would not confirm nor deny that McMurray signed an extension. It is Ganassi policy not to comment on contracts.<br \/>\n\/\/ <\/p>\n<p>2012-07-12 16:00:00<span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Source: Todd Warshaw\/Getty Images North America<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McMurray driver of the No.1 Bass Pro Shops\/McDonald&#8217;s Chevrolet Impala, told reporters for The Sporting News that he had resigned with Ganassi Racing for next season. He was brief in comment and told them that &#8220;I&#8217;m set for here,&#8221; McMurray said. &#8220;It&#8217;s done. I haven&#8217;t really made a big deal about it. Drivers take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[137,286],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chip-ganassi","9":"tag-jamie-mcmurray"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","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=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}