{"id":17420,"date":"2016-01-12T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17420"},"modified":"2016-01-12T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:00:07","slug":"ford-to-change-look-of-fusion-for-2016-ryan-blaney-no-21-car-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2016\/01\/12\/ford-to-change-look-of-fusion-for-2016-ryan-blaney-no-21-car-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford to change look of Fusion for 2016, Ryan Blaney No. 21 car photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17421\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016.jpg\" alt=\"blaney2016\" width=\"900\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016.jpg 900w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016-594x368.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\nFor the 2016 season Ford will change the look of the Fusion which runs in\u00a0the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>The new look of the Fusion will actually be the third different variation of the car, the last of which\u00a0occurred three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17422\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016b.jpg\" alt=\"blaney2016b\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016b.jpg 900w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016b-594x396.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016b-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The result of the efforts of designers and engineers is an aggressive-looking new race car capable of producing 750 horsepower at 9,000 RPM under the current rules package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no mistaking we\u2019re here to win races and championships,\u201d said Dave Pericak, global director, Ford Performance. \u201cAnd we believe the new NASCAR Fusion will be a powerful tool in the hands of our teams and drivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17423\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016c.jpg\" alt=\"blaney2016c\" width=\"620\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016c.jpg 900w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016c-594x191.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016c-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/01\/blaney2016c-768x247.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAerodynamics are more important than ever at the speeds these cars run,\u201d Pericak\u00a0added, \u201cso we used some of the best wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics technology available to create this new Fusion. Fortunately, the Ford design team gave us a great car with which to start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski will drive the new Fusion body in a Tuesday test at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2016 season Ford will change the look of the Fusion which runs in\u00a0the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The new look of the Fusion will actually be the third different variation of the car, the last of which\u00a0occurred three years ago. The result of the efforts of designers and engineers is an aggressive-looking new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,708,560],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-17420","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","11":"tag-ryan-blaney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17420","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=17420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17420"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}