{"id":5228,"date":"2012-12-04T19:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T00:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2012-12-04T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T00:17:49","slug":"mike-ford-joins-bk-racing-as-director-of-competition-and-racing-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/12\/04\/mike-ford-joins-bk-racing-as-director-of-competition-and-racing-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Ford joins BK Racing as director of competition and racing operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5229\" title=\"HOMESTEAD, FL - NOVEMBER 19:  Mike Ford, crew chief of the #11 FedEx Express Toyota, walks on the grid during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 19, 2011 in Homestead, Florida.  (Photo by Todd Warshaw\/Getty Images for NASCAR)\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/12\/ford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/12\/ford.jpg 438w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/12\/ford-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Ford joins BK Racing as their director of competition and racing operations, joining BKR after a successful career as a crew chief.<\/p>\n<p>Ford most recently served as the crew chief for both Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola at Richard Petty Motorsports. Prior to that, he led Denny Hamlin to a second-place finish in the 2010 Chase for the Sprint Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited to have Mike Ford join BK Racing,\u201d Devine said. \u201cMike\u2019s experience will help take BK\u2019s on-track performance to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>BKR is still working on finalizing both its driver and crew chief lineup. More information is expected later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ford joins BK Racing as their director of competition and racing operations, joining BKR after a successful career as a crew chief. Ford most recently served as the crew chief for both Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola at Richard Petty Motorsports. Prior to that, he led Denny Hamlin to a second-place finish in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[448],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mike-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","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=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}