{"id":17252,"date":"2015-11-08T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17252"},"modified":"2015-11-08T18:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T23:21:44","slug":"matt-kenseth-congratulates-jimmie-johnson-on-texas-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/11\/08\/matt-kenseth-congratulates-jimmie-johnson-on-texas-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Kenseth congratulates Jimmie Johnson on Texas win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17253\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/mattkenseth.jpg\" alt=\"mattkenseth\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/mattkenseth.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/mattkenseth-590x418.jpg 590w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/11\/mattkenseth-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just because Matt Kenseth was suspended does not mean he did not take in Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>While Erik Jones drove the No. 20 Dewalt Toyota Camry to a 12th place finish which Kenseth considered a &#8220;solida day&#8221; the highlight of the 2003 Series Champions comments about Texas were in a congratulatory tweet to race winner Jimmie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson passed Penske Racing driver Brad Keselowski in the closing laps to win the AAA Texas 500.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good work <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmieJohnson\">@JimmieJohnson<\/a>! Textbook pass for the win at the end of the race when someone is trying to take your lane. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/quintessential?src=hash\">#quintessential<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Kenseth (@mattkenseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattkenseth\/status\/663493611401682944\">November 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kenseth wrote &#8220;Good work @JimmieJohnson! Textbook pass for the win at the end of the race when someone is trying to take your lane. #quintessential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tweet is two fold. First it reflects his view for what happened at Kansas, and also is a bit of a swipe at NASCAR CEO and Chairman Brian France who called Logano&#8217;s spin of Kenseth &#8220;quintessential.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because Matt Kenseth was suspended does not mean he did not take in Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. While Erik Jones drove the No. 20 Dewalt Toyota Camry to a 12th place finish which Kenseth considered a &#8220;solida day&#8221; the highlight of the 2003 Series Champions comments about Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,417,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17252","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-matt-kenseth","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252","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=17252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}