{"id":16017,"date":"2015-03-12T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16017"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:18:31","slug":"mike-wallace-out-of-no-66-car-looking-for-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/03\/12\/mike-wallace-out-of-no-66-car-looking-for-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Wallace out of No. 66 car, looking for ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/mikewallace.jpg\" alt=\"mikewallace\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/mikewallace.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/mikewallace-594x395.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/mikewallace-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nVeteran NASCAR driver Mike Wallace is currently looking for a new seat after losing his ride in the No. 66 Premium Motorsports Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace is looking for rides in all three of NASCAR&#8217;s top series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My status is I&#8217;m a free agent in all categories, from the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Truck Series,&#8221; Wallace told NASCAR Talk on Wednesday. &#8220;This (being without a ride) wasn&#8217;t something that was on my agenda to be looking at. I thought we were going to run more races with the 66 car, at least that&#8217;s what was told to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the NASCAR season already three weeks in, Wallace is facing an uphill battle as he looks for a ride this season. Thus far he has received little to no interest and acknowledged that it may take some time for a spot to become available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody&#8217;s called,&#8221; Wallace said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see anything opening up. Everybody&#8217;s on the west coast swing. It&#8217;s hard to find actual driving positions for people at this early stage of the game (season).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tanner Berryhill will make his Sprint CUp Series debut in the No. 66 Chevrolet this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car was going to run at Vegas and Phoenix with no sponsorship on it,&#8221; Wallace said. &#8220;The Berryhill family was able to bring some funds to the 66 car, as far as I can figure.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Wallace will run the May 2 XFINITY Series race at Talladega for JGL Racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran NASCAR driver Mike Wallace is currently looking for a new seat after losing his ride in the No. 66 Premium Motorsports Chevrolet. Wallace is looking for rides in all three of NASCAR&#8217;s top series. &#8220;My status is I&#8217;m a free agent in all categories, from the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Truck Series,&#8221; Wallace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[457,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-mike-wallace","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017","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=16017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16017"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}