{"id":16848,"date":"2015-09-02T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16848"},"modified":"2015-09-02T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:42:15","slug":"kyle-larson-driving-mello-yellow-throwback-at-darlington-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/09\/02\/kyle-larson-driving-mello-yellow-throwback-at-darlington-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson driving Mello Yellow throwback at Darlington (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16849\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson1.jpg\" alt=\"larson1\" width=\"922\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson1.jpg 922w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson1-594x335.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The No. 42 car and sponsor Mello Yellow have a long history in NASCAR. On Sunday, driver Kyle Larson&#8217;s No. 42 car will trade in its normal Target red and white for a black car reminiscent of the time Kyle Pettery drove the car for Ganassi co-owner Felix Sabates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning the Mello Yello paint scheme for the throwback-themed race weekend at Darlington Raceway will be great. For me, having run this car with Kyle Petty earlier in my career, it is very special to see it on track again with Kyle Larson. I\u2019m sure this car will help add to the excitement that\u2019s already surrounding this year\u2019s Southern 500.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16850\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson2.jpg\" alt=\"larson2\" width=\"922\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson2.jpg 922w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson2-594x335.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/09\/larson2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mello Yellow has not been featuered on the No. 42 car since the 1994 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis paint scheme has such a cool history between the movie and Kyle Petty having run it for Felix, so I\u2019m really excited to drive it. Days of Thunder is definitely one of my favorite racing movies, and I know it\u2019s a favorite for a lot of fans too. The connection with Felix is pretty cool. Even though I was too young to watch Kyle Petty driving the Mello Yello car, I know people will remember the scheme from those days, as well as his crazy hair from back then. There\u2019s just a lot of fun stuff surrounding this car, so I\u2019m really glad that the Target team is able to run it for Darlington\u2019s throwback race. I think the fans are really going to like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 42 car and sponsor Mello Yellow have a long history in NASCAR. On Sunday, driver Kyle Larson&#8217;s No. 42 car will trade in its normal Target red and white for a black car reminiscent of the time Kyle Pettery drove the car for Ganassi co-owner Felix Sabates. \u201cRunning the Mello Yello paint scheme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848","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=16848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16848"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}