{"id":4568,"date":"2012-10-24T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:34:29","slug":"regan-smith-still-will-be-in-the-51-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/10\/24\/regan-smith-still-will-be-in-the-51-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Regan Smith will be in the #51 this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4569\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4569\" title=\"smith\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/10\/smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/10\/smith.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/10\/smith-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Sean Gardner\/GETTY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regan Smith has no ride at Martinsville after finding out that Dale Earnhardt Jr. was indeed cleared to race this weekend after suffering from a concussion and missing the last two race weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u00a0 filled in driving the #88 at Charlotte and Kansas, in which he finished 38th due to engine problems and 7th, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Phoenix Racing announced they were sticking with A.J Allmendinger at Martinsville, marking his third week in the car&#8230; but what about Regan Smith?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that left Smith without a ride for this weekend. Smith couldn&#8217;t commit to being available to drive the #51 by the time they needed to in order for them to make plans for Martinsville this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But, the season isn&#8217;t over for Smith yet.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, James Finch, owner of Phoenix Racing said that Smith and Allmendinger will share duties in his #51 for the remainder of the season. Allmendinger will be in the car at Martinsville and Texas, while Smith will take over for the final two races at Phoenix and Homestead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regan Smith has no ride at Martinsville after finding out that Dale Earnhardt Jr. was indeed cleared to race this weekend after suffering from a concussion and missing the last two race weekends. Smith\u00a0 filled in driving the #88 at Charlotte and Kansas, in which he finished 38th due to engine problems and 7th, respectively. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[30,529],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-4568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aj-allmendinger","9":"tag-regan-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568","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=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}