{"id":5272,"date":"2012-12-13T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2012-12-13T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:24:41","slug":"front-row-motorsports-annouces-deals-with-ragan-gilliland-and-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/12\/13\/front-row-motorsports-annouces-deals-with-ragan-gilliland-and-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Row Motorsports announces deals with Ragan, Gilliland and Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Front Row Motorsports will field three cars during the 2013 season. Entering its fourth year, Front Row Motorsports announced on Thursday that it would field cars for David Ragan, David Gilliland and Josh Wise at the NASCAR Sprint Cup level. The organization will continue their partnership with Roush-Yates Engines as well.<\/p>\n

The 2012 season was the first year Ragan was a part of FRM. He scored the organizations best finish with a fourth place run in the fall race at Talladega after finishing seventh during the spring event. Ragan finished 28th in the overall driver standings while Gilliland was close behind in 30th.<\/p>\n

In 2013 the team will also add a full time third car. Josh Wise will run the entire Cup schedule after running select events for FRM last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Gilliland has been a rock for us for three years and David Ragan brought race-winning experience to us last year and returns for 2013.\u00a0 That stability is huge for a young, developing team, and I know we\u2019ll continue to improve and have even better results this upcoming season.\u201d said<\/a> team owner Bob Jenkins.<\/p>\n

Jay Guy will return as crew chief for Ragan\u2019s No. 34 team and Derrick Finley will continue to lead Gilliland\u2019s No. 38 crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a learning curve whenever something new is thrown into the mix, whether it\u2019s a new driver, new crew chief, new car or new team members,\u201d Ragan said.\u00a0 \u201cWe have a new Ford Fusion for 2013, which I\u2019m really excited about, so it will be really important and really helpful that all the other variables aren\u2019t changing.\u00a0 My crew chief, Jay Guy, and I built a great working relationship last year and that will help us be better this coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likewise Gilliland is excited about the 2013 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to start my fourth year with Front Row Motorsports,\u201d Gilliland said.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten better each and every season and I\u2019m eager to get the season going with Derrick (Finley) again.\u00a0 Bob Jenkins has put a lot into this team since he started with a part-time team back in \u201905.\u00a0 He\u2019s growing it the way he should and the results are showing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Front Row Motorsports plans to participate in Pre-Season Thunder at Daytona from Jan. 10 to 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Front Row Motorsports will field three cars during the 2013 season. Entering its fourth year, Front Row Motorsports announced on Thursday that it would field cars for David Ragan, David Gilliland and Josh Wise at the NASCAR Sprint Cup level. The organization will continue their partnership with Roush-Yates Engines as well. The 2012 season was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[182,184,228,343],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-5272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-gilliland","10":"tag-front-row-motorsports","11":"tag-josh-wise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","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=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}