{"id":4906,"date":"2012-11-12T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2012-11-12T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:08:17","slug":"michael-waltrip-racing-statement-on-altercation-at-phoenix-between-clint-bowyer-and-jeff-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/11\/12\/michael-waltrip-racing-statement-on-altercation-at-phoenix-between-clint-bowyer-and-jeff-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Waltrip Racing statement, apologizes for altercation between Clint Bowyer and Jeff Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4908\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4908 \" title=\"bowyergordonphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/bowyergordonphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/bowyergordonphoto.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/bowyergordonphoto-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Pennington\/GETTY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Michael Waltrip Racing<\/strong> released the following statement, regarding <a title=\"Video: Jeff Gordon retaliates against Clint Bowyer, fight erupts at Phoenix\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/11\/11\/video-jeff-gordon-retaliates-against-clint-bowyer-at-phoenix\/\">Sunday&#8217;s altercation between Clint Bowyer&#8217;s crew and Jeff Gordon<\/a> at the AdvoCare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe goal of Michael Waltrip Racing is to be a championship-level organization both on and off the track. The on-track incident which occurred during Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway was extremely disappointing and brought raw emotions of a long and hard championship battle to the surface.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Though we\u00a0generally cannot control certain actions\u00a0on the track,\u00a0the unfortunate reactions off the track Sunday did not live up to the professional standards in which Michael Waltrip Racing expects all of its representatives to live by.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> We commit to our sponsors, our manufacturer, our fans and NASCAR that we will do so in the future. &#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Waltrip Racing released the following statement, regarding Sunday&#8217;s altercation between Clint Bowyer&#8217;s crew and Jeff Gordon at the AdvoCare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway. \u201cThe goal of Michael Waltrip Racing is to be a championship-level organization both on and off the track. The on-track incident which occurred during Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[154,304,438],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-4906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-clint-bowyer","9":"tag-jeff-gordon","10":"tag-michael-waltrip-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906","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=4906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}