{"id":15849,"date":"2015-01-27T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2015-01-27T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T02:00:16","slug":"jj-yeley-named-driver-of-bk-racing-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/01\/27\/jj-yeley-named-driver-of-bk-racing-team\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Yeley named driver of BK Racing team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/jjyeley.jpg\" alt=\"jjyeley\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/jjyeley.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/jjyeley-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nBK Racing announced on Tuesday that driver JJ Yeley will drive one of their Toyota Camry&#8217;s for the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.<\/p>\n<p>Yeley will get behind the wheel of one of BK Racing&#8217;s machines beginning at Daytona International Speedway. He did drive both the No. 83 and No. 93 cars last season on a part-time basis but now will get a full 36 race ride.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am looking forward to getting back behind the wheel of my BK Racing Toyota Camry. I filled in for the team at the end of the 2014 season, and I&#8217;m glad to be given the opportunity to come back again for another season.&#8221; Yeley said. &#8220;I am ready to get the 2015 season started and head to Daytona International Speedway for some restrictor plate racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his career Yeley has two Top 5&#8217;s, eight Top 10&#8217;s and one Coor&#8217;s Light Pole Award since joining the Cup Series in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;JJ has been a great asset to the BK Racing team,&#8221; owner Ron Devine commented. &#8220;He has been involved in the motorsports industry for several years now, and has the knowledge and skill to help build this organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus far no sponsorship for has been named for Yeley&#8217;s car. BK Racing has been running with Dr. Pepper and Burger King on its cars since joining the Cup Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BK Racing announced on Tuesday that driver JJ Yeley will drive one of their Toyota Camry&#8217;s for the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Yeley will get behind the wheel of one of BK Racing&#8217;s machines beginning at Daytona International Speedway. He did drive both the No. 83 and No. 93 cars last season on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[317,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-15849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-jj-yeley","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","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=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}