{"id":9771,"date":"2013-09-11T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:09:25","slug":"michael-waltrip-racing-sponsors-release-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/09\/11\/michael-waltrip-racing-sponsors-release-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Waltrip Racing sponsors release statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9724\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9724\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/09\/clintbowyerspin.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/09\/clintbowyerspin.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/09\/clintbowyerspin-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two sponsors of Michael Waltrip Racing released statements on Wednesday that said they were discussing their partnership with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race tea.<\/p>\n<p>NAPA&#8217;s Facebook page has the following message:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The actions taken by Michael Waltrip&#8217;s Racing team this past weekend leading to the penalties assessed by NASCAR, are very concerning. We are disappointed that a partner associated with our organization would make such a significant error in judgment. In addition, we have launched our own review to determine the future of our partnership with Michael Waltrip&#8217;s Racing team. The NAPA AUTO PARTS organization is proud of its long-standing NASCAR relationship. We share a passion with our customers for high quality racing and seek to determine the best course of action for our customers, NASCAR fans, and the NAPA organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WALTRIP DEFENDS: <a title=\"Michael Waltrip: There was no plan going into Richmond to get Truex in Chase\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/09\/10\/michael-waltrip-there-was-no-plan-going-into-richmond-to-get-truex-in-chase\/\">HEAD OF MWR DEFENDS ORGANIZATION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5 Hour Energy posted this on its twitter account:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We respect NASCAR&#8217;s penalties against MWR &amp; are addressing our sponsorship relations internally. We appreciate your understanding &amp; patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clint Bowyer will compete in the NASCAR Chase while teammate Martin Truex Jr. has been removed and replaced by Ryan Newman after NASCAR <a title=\"NASCAR penalizes MWR, Chase change with Newman in and Truex out\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/09\/09\/nascar-penalizes-mwr-newman-in-and-truex-out\/\">conducted a review<\/a> of Saturday nights race at Richmond International Raceway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two sponsors of Michael Waltrip Racing released statements on Wednesday that said they were discussing their partnership with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race tea. NAPA&#8217;s Facebook page has the following message: &#8220;The actions taken by Michael Waltrip&#8217;s Racing team this past weekend leading to the penalties assessed by NASCAR, are very concerning. We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-9771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}