{"id":14359,"date":"2014-08-14T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:21:55","slug":"greg-biffle-releases-statement-about-3m-leaving-rfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/08\/14\/greg-biffle-releases-statement-about-3m-leaving-rfr\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Biffle releases statement about 3M leaving RFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/IMG_0983.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0983.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nGreg Biffle will return to Roush Fenway Racing in 2015 without longtime sponsor 3M. <\/p>\n<p>3M had been appearing on the No. 16 Ford driven by Biffle since 2005 but will shift their NASCAR sponsorship to Jeff Gordon&#8217;s No. 24 next season. <\/p>\n<p>Biffle released a statement on Facebook on Thursday thanking the company. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say that 3M has been a great partner and I\u2019ve created so many friendships over there. I\u2019ve said for a long time that they\u2019re like family, they\u2019re not like a sponsor. It\u2019s been a great 10 years we\u2019ve had together. Leadership changes. Things change. This sport is a business and we all know that in business there are decisions to make, but we will miss them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biffle also promised upcoming news about new sponsors for his car next season. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve got a few partners moving forward that it\u2019s gonna be a great thing for the 16 car. I appreciate the support from all the fans of the 16 team and all of the 3M employees. They\u2019ve been behind this program forever and, like I said, I\u2019ve made a lot of friendships and those will remain without a doubt moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biffle and the rest of the Sprint Cup Series will be at the 2-mile Michigan International Speedway this weekend for the Pure Michigan 400. In 23 starts Biffle has four wins and 14 top ten finishes at MIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Biffle will return to Roush Fenway Racing in 2015 without longtime sponsor 3M. 3M had been appearing on the No. 16 Ford driven by Biffle since 2005 but will shift their NASCAR sponsorship to Jeff Gordon&#8217;s No. 24 next season. Biffle released a statement on Facebook on Thursday thanking the company. &#8220;I have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[244,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-greg-biffle","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359","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=14359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}