{"id":5011,"date":"2012-11-17T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2012-11-17T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:15:15","slug":"rpm-re-signs-marcos-ambrose-and-aric-almirola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/11\/17\/rpm-re-signs-marcos-ambrose-and-aric-almirola\/","title":{"rendered":"RPM re-signs Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5013\" title=\"Richard Petty, Aric Almirola, Marcos Ambrose\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/ambrosealmirola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/ambrosealmirola.jpg 512w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/ambrosealmirola-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>Richard Petty Motorsports has re-signed both of its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. Marcos Ambrose will return to drive the No. 9 Ford Fusion while Aric Almirola will drive the No. 43 car during the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the third year at RPM for Ambrose. The 2013 season will make the second year at the team for Almirola.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s good to come back to Richard Petty Motorsports and focus on our future together,\u201d said Ambrose.\u00a0\u201cWe had success this year and recently have made plans to get better for 2013 and beyond.\u00a0It was great to win at Watkins Glen, earn my first two poles and also have the opportunity to make the \u2018Chase\u2019 this year.\u00a0I think the Petty organization, and this No. 9 team under the leadership of \u2018The King,\u2019 Sammy (Johns) and Drew (crew chief Blickensderfer), is going to be even stronger next season.\u00a0I can\u2019t think of a better place to be and am ready to win.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In addition to their Sprint Cup Series teams, RPM will continue to field the No. 43 Pilot\/Flying J Ford in the NASCAR Nationwide Series with driver Michael Annett. Annett is currently fifth in the Nationwide Series championship.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Petty Motorsports has re-signed both of its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. Marcos Ambrose will return to drive the No. 9 Ford Fusion while Aric Almirola will drive the No. 43 car during the 2013 season. This will be the third year at RPM for Ambrose. The 2013 season will make the second year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[46,396,536],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-5011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aric-almirola","9":"tag-marcos-ambrose","10":"tag-richard-petty-motorsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}