{"id":16230,"date":"2015-05-08T21:48:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16230"},"modified":"2015-05-08T21:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T01:48:03","slug":"fire-damages-race-shop-of-leavine-family-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/05\/08\/fire-damages-race-shop-of-leavine-family-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire damages race shop of Leavine Family Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/michaelmcdowell.jpg\" alt=\"michaelmcdowell\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/michaelmcdowell.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/michaelmcdowell-594x396.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/05\/michaelmcdowell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nA fire which started around 7 am damaged the race shop of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team Leavine Family Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Leavine Family Racing released a statement saying that there were no injuries and that the cause of the fire was not yet determined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm there was was a fire at our Concord, NC shop,&#8221; the team said. &#8220;Luckily no one was injured. We are working with the fire department and local officials to determine what happened. We&#8217;ve heard from the fire department there was significant damage to the back of the race shop. As you can imagine, we are still working to assess the full situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four backup cars were destroyed in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After receiving more information from a restoration company that inspected the fire damage at the shop today, we were informed that structural damage may cause us to move our racing operations,&#8221; LFR team officials said in a statement. &#8220;We are currently exploring all options.<\/p>\n<p>The Leavine Family Racing team is in Kansas this weekend. Driver Michael McDowell will drive the No. 95 Ford Fusion in the SpongeBob SquarePants 400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire which started around 7 am damaged the race shop of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team Leavine Family Racing. Leavine Family Racing released a statement saying that there were no injuries and that the cause of the fire was not yet determined. &#8220;We can confirm there was was a fire at our Concord, NC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[434,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-16230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-michael-mcdowell","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230","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=16230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16230"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}