{"id":8203,"date":"2013-06-16T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:29:36","slug":"photos-hamlin-honors-jason-leffler-with-old-fedex-paint-scheme-at-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/06\/16\/photos-hamlin-honors-jason-leffler-with-old-fedex-paint-scheme-at-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Hamlin honors Jason Leffler with old FedEx paint scheme at Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8204\" alt=\"hamlin1\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/hamlin1.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/hamlin1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/hamlin1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><br \/>\nBROOKLYN, Mich &#8211; Joe Gibbs Racing made a last minute paint scheme adjustment to the No. 11 Fed Ex Toyota driven by Denny Hamlin for Sunday&#8217;s Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin&#8217;s car was wrapped in it&#8217;s normal colors for qualifying but was changed to pay tribute to the late Jason Leffler on Sunday for the Quicken Loans 400 by using the old school paint scheme from when Leffler raced for JGR and FedEx in 2005. Leffler died in a short track accident last Wednesday from a blunt force neck injury at the age of 37.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8205\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8205\" alt=\"hamlin2\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/hamlin2.jpg\" width=\"657\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/hamlin2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/hamlin2-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hamlin&#8217;s Jason Leffler paint scheme &#8211; Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hamlin was <a title=\"Drivers honor Jason Leffler at Michigan with decals on cars\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/06\/14\/drivers-honor-jason-leffler-at-michigan-with-decals-on-cars\/\">one of many drivers paying tribute to Leffler<\/a> on Sunday. Hamlin<a title=\"Greg Biffle wins at Michigan for Quicken Loans 400, full race results\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/06\/16\/greg-biffle-wins-at-michigan-for-quicken-loans-400-full-race-results\/\"> finished the race in 30th<\/a> position.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8206\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8206\" alt=\"leffler111\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/leffler111.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/leffler111.jpg 446w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/leffler111-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The car in 2005.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, Mich &#8211; Joe Gibbs Racing made a last minute paint scheme adjustment to the No. 11 Fed Ex Toyota driven by Denny Hamlin for Sunday&#8217;s Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Hamlin&#8217;s car was wrapped in it&#8217;s normal colors for qualifying but was changed to pay tribute to the late Jason Leffler on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[194,297],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-8203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-denny-hamlin","9":"tag-jason-leffler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","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=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}