{"id":14907,"date":"2014-09-15T02:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14907"},"modified":"2014-09-15T02:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:24:45","slug":"marcos-ambrose-to-drive-v8-supercars-for-penske","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/09\/15\/marcos-ambrose-to-drive-v8-supercars-for-penske\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos Ambrose to drive V8 Supercars for Penske"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14908\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14908\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/marcosambrose1.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/marcosambrose1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/marcosambrose1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/09\/marcosambrose1-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marcos Ambrose will drive for Team Penske on the V8 Supercvars Championship circuit beginning in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose had already been confirmed as leaving the No. 9 car at Richard Petty Motorsports at the end of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Team Penske will partner with Dick Johnson Racing to field Ford Falcons for Ambrose who won the 2003 and 2004 championships on the v8 Supercar circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam Penske is excited to partner with Dick Johnson Racing to compete in the V8 Supercars Championship starting next season,\u201d said Roger Penske. \u201cWe believe in building our businesses through racing and our success on the track. With our new business ventures in Australia, it makes sense to showcase our brands through the V8 Supercars Championship and the opportunity to work with DJR and Marcos Ambrose convinced us to go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity to return home to a place that I love in a Series where I\u2019ve experienced a lot of success,\u201d said Ambrose, who has earned two career victories at the highest level of NASCAR competition \u2013 the Sprint Cup Series. \u201cIt will be an honor to race for two motorsport legends in Roger Penske and Dick Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos Ambrose will drive for Team Penske on the V8 Supercvars Championship circuit beginning in 2015. Ambrose had already been confirmed as leaving the No. 9 car at Richard Petty Motorsports at the end of the 2014 season. Team Penske will partner with Dick Johnson Racing to field Ford Falcons for Ambrose who won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[396,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-14907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-marcos-ambrose","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907","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=14907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14907"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}