{"id":3621,"date":"2012-09-22T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2012-09-22T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:21:50","slug":"mike-olsen-to-make-cup-debut-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/09\/22\/mike-olsen-to-make-cup-debut-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Olsen to make cup debut Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 32 FAS Lane Ford will be driven by Mike Olsen this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It will be Olsen&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut as he will drive a car owned by longtime friend Frank Stoddard.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will become the first driver-owner tandem from New Hampshire to race in the Sprint Cup series when Olsen takes the wheel in tomorrow&#8217;s Sylvania 300.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen, a 44-year-old who won championships in what is now the K&amp;N Pro Series East tour in 2001 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Stoddard decided to place Olsen in the car since it was safely locked into the race via owner points.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Stoddard received backlash when he attempted to field his car for John Wes Townley with their family sponsored Zaxby&#8217;s chicken on the car. Townley hit the wall in practice and then removed himself from the car. Jason White competed in that race at Pocono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 32 FAS Lane Ford will be driven by Mike Olsen this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It will be Olsen&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut as he will drive a car owned by longtime friend Frank Stoddard. The pair will become the first driver-owner tandem from New Hampshire to race in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[454],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-mike-olsen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}