{"id":801,"date":"2010-05-19T19:22:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2010-05-19T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T23:22:52","slug":"jr-motorsports-turns-to-greg-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/05\/19\/jr-motorsports-turns-to-greg-sacks\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Motorsports turns to Greg Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/img\/2008\/07\/03\/amd_huff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/>In a move that shows how desperate JR Motorsports is they have hired 57-year-old Greg Sacks to drive the number 88 car in the July 22nd race at Daytona International Speedway. Sacks last competed in a NASCAR sanctioned event in 2005 when he did a pair of start and parks at Pocono for his own team.<\/p>\n<p>The car will be sponsored by Grand Touring Vodka. Steve Arpin will continue to drive car number 7 while Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be driving a special Wrangler laced car number 3 in tribute to his father.<\/p>\n<p>Future driving plans for car number 88 have not been announced but anytime Greg Sacks gets to be a race will bring back memories to his cup win in 1985 at Daytona in the Pepsi Firecracker 400. Sacks would later add a Nationwide series win in 1996 at Talldega to his resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that shows how desperate JR Motorsports is they have hired 57-year-old Greg Sacks to drive the number 88 car in the July 22nd race at Daytona International Speedway. Sacks last competed in a NASCAR sanctioned event in 2005 when he did a pair of start and parks at Pocono for his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[248,345],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-greg-sacks","8":"tag-jr-motorsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}