{"id":15788,"date":"2014-12-23T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=15788"},"modified":"2014-12-23T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T16:44:39","slug":"carl-edwards-has-high-expectations-upon-heading-to-jgr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/12\/23\/carl-edwards-has-high-expectations-upon-heading-to-jgr\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Edwards has high expectations upon heading to JGR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_14642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14642\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/carledwards2.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/carledwards2.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/carledwards2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNewly signed Joe Gibbs Racing driver Carl Edwards enters the 2015 season with high expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan on winning 10 races and the championship,\u201d Edwards declared during an interview with Jay Glazer on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Just two years ago Matt Kenseth, who like Edwards once raced for Roush Fenway Racing, won seven races and finished second in the championship standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will be like, \u2018Ah, he\u2019s crazy.\u2019 But if we don\u2019t win the championship, it will not be a success,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paint Schemes: <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/09\/17\/stanley-and-dewalt-joins-jgr-to-sponsor-carl-edwards-and-matt-kenseth\/\" title=\"Stanley and Dewalt join JGR; to sponsor Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth\">Carl Edwards 2015 ride<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s putting in these resources to win a championship, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for who has been key in helping Edwards with his transition to JGR?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt Kenseth has helped me a lot. We started as teammates (at Roush),\u201d Edwards said. \u201cI didn\u2019t understand Matt. I wasn\u2019t the best teammate when I came into the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a couple things. I\u2019ve been doing this 10 years, and I don\u2019t have a title. And two, I didn\u2019t have the best relationships with my teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I know I need to work together. I think I come in here a lot more humble and wanting to learn from these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly signed Joe Gibbs Racing driver Carl Edwards enters the 2015 season with high expectations. \u201cI plan on winning 10 races and the championship,\u201d Edwards declared during an interview with Jay Glazer on Sunday. Just two years ago Matt Kenseth, who like Edwards once raced for Roush Fenway Racing, won seven races and finished second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[114,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-15788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-carl-edwards","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788","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=15788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}