{"id":1465,"date":"2011-11-21T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2011-11-21T16:47:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:47:01","slug":"koch-leaves-macdonald-motorsports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2011\/11\/21\/koch-leaves-macdonald-motorsports\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch leaves MacDonald Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Blake+Koch+Homestead+Miami+Speedway+Day+2+WahFug9aATul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" \/>Blake Koch who drove the #81 car this year will not return to MacDonald Motorsports in 2012.The Mooresville, NC based team had attempted to run two cars at the end of the year featuring Koch and Reed Sorenson,<\/p>\n<p>Randy MacDonald  team owner of Mac Donald Motorsports released the following statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had a great season in 2011 says  McDonald, as we have began to reposition our program and lay the foundation and  blueprint for the future of our race team, we are able to run competitively in  the top-15. As MacDonald Motorsports will be moving on from Koch in 2012, the  team&#8217;s planned expansion leaves opportunities available for both drivers and  employees.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word yet on any names that could replace Koch in the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Koch who drove the #81 car this year will not return to MacDonald Motorsports in 2012.The Mooresville, NC based team had attempted to run two cars at the end of the year featuring Koch and Reed Sorenson, Randy MacDonald team owner of Mac Donald Motorsports released the following statement. &#8220;We had a great season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,388],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-blake-koch","8":"tag-macdonald-motorsports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","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=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}