{"id":1348,"date":"2011-10-04T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T20:29:36","slug":"brian-vickers-takes-over-reed-sorensons-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/10\/04\/brian-vickers-takes-over-reed-sorensons-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Vickers takes over Reed Sorenson&#8217;s ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Vickers again will drive the 32 car for Turner Motorsports. With primary sponsor Dollar General parting ways with the team at seasons end the team thought now as a good time to part ways with Sorenson who was currently third in the Nationwide standings 49 back of first.<\/p>\n<p>Sorenson has w0n one race this season at Elkhart Lake following an odd chain of events when teammate Justin Allgaier ran out of gas on the final lap under caution.<\/p>\n<p>Vickers has driven the car in the past and will work with Sorenson&#8217;s crew chief Trent Ownes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what happened,\u201d Sorenson told Moody. \u201cI got a phone call  this morning, but they didn\u2019t really say much. All they would say is  that I\u2019m out of the car. I haven\u2019t gotten a reason\u2014I\u2019m just as confused  as you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;border: medium none\">Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/aol.sportingnews.com\/nascar\/story\/2011-10-04\/reed-sorenson-out-at-turner-motorsports-brian-vickers-in#ixzz1ZqYxY1e4\">http:\/\/aol.sportingnews.com\/nascar\/story\/2011-10-04\/reed-sorenson-out-at-turner-motorsports-brian-vickers-in#ixzz1ZqYxY1e4<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen drivers lose championships in odd ways before and while Sorenson&#8217;s hopes may have turned into long shots, he still had a chance. This is a new one for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Dollar General will sponsor a Joe Gibbs Racing car full time next season on the Nationwide circuit and will also sponsor a car on the Cup side part time next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Vickers again will drive the 32 car for Turner Motorsports. With primary sponsor Dollar General parting ways with the team at seasons end the team thought now as a good time to part ways with Sorenson who was currently third in the Nationwide standings 49 back of first. Sorenson has w0n one race this [&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":[104,528],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brian-vickers","8":"tag-reed-sorenson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","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=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}