{"id":12054,"date":"2014-03-04T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T03:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2014-03-04T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T03:29:09","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-to-run-mountain-dew-kickstart-paint-scheme-at-las-vegas-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/04\/dale-earnhardt-jr-to-run-mountain-dew-kickstart-paint-scheme-at-las-vegas-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. to run Mountain Dew Kickstart paint scheme at Las Vegas (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12060\" alt=\"Dale Jr. Kickstart Paitout 4\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/Dale-Jr.-Kickstart-Paitout-4.jpg\" width=\"2496\" height=\"1664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/Dale-Jr.-Kickstart-Paitout-4.jpg 2496w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/Dale-Jr.-Kickstart-Paitout-4-594x396.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/Dale-Jr.-Kickstart-Paitout-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/Dale-Jr.-Kickstart-Paitout-4-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2496px) 100vw, 2496px\" \/><br \/>\nDale Earnhardt Jr. won the Daytona 500 to start the season and followed that up with a second place finish at Phoenix last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Now Earnhardt Jr. and the rest of the No. 88 Chevrolet SS team will head to Las Vegas Motor Speedway where they will unveil the Mountain Dew Kickstart paint scheme for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Earnhardt Jr. will be looking for another strong run in the Kobalt Tools 400 at the 1.5-mile track on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;12055&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>Earnhardt has made 14 career starts at Las Vegas with a best finish of second in 2003 and 2008. Earnhardt has finished inside the top ten in each of the last three trips to Las Vegas and finished seventh there last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Daytona 500 to start the season and followed that up with a second place finish at Phoenix last Sunday. Now Earnhardt Jr. and the rest of the No. 88 Chevrolet SS team will head to Las Vegas Motor Speedway where they will unveil the Mountain Dew Kickstart paint scheme for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[170,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}