{"id":17359,"date":"2015-12-10T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17359"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:34:06","slug":"brian-scott-tabbed-to-drive-no-9-for-richard-petty-motorsports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/12\/10\/brian-scott-tabbed-to-drive-no-9-for-richard-petty-motorsports\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Scott tabbed to drive No. 9 for Richard Petty Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10083\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10083\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/09\/brianscottss.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Andy Lyons\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/09\/brianscottss.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/09\/brianscottss-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Andy Lyons\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Richard Petty Motorsports will formerly announce Brian Scott as the driver of the No. 9 Ford Fusion for the 2016 season on Friday at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, 27, has been competing in the Xfinity Series for the past six seasons including the last three with Richard Childress Racing.\u00a0In 208 starts, Scott has 20 top-five and 77 top-10 finishes and won five poles.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have circulated from Adam Stern of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/A_S12\/status\/674627700494049280\">Sports Business Journal<\/a>, that\u00a0&#8220;sponsor will be Albertsons, which struck [business to business] deal with Smithfield as part of pact.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Petty Motorsports will formerly announce Brian Scott as the driver of the No. 9 Ford Fusion for the 2016 season on Friday at a press conference. Scott, 27, has been competing in the Xfinity Series for the past six seasons including the last three with Richard Childress Racing.\u00a0In 208 starts, Scott has 20 top-five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[102,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-17359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-brian-scott","tag-front","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359","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=17359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}