{"id":1764,"date":"2012-04-16T11:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2012-04-16T11:01:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:01:36","slug":"kurt-busch-may-not-run-full-cup-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/04\/16\/kurt-busch-may-not-run-full-cup-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Busch may not run full Cup season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Kurt+Busch+Martinsville+Speedway+Day+2+db2SBn1ZMkfl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Phoenix Racing owner James Finch praised the effort of driver Kurt Busch saying &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like a small team getting a big-time quarterback&#8221; still the team may miss races later this season if sponsorship can not be found.<\/p>\n<p>Busch ran the past race at Texas with a red and white colored car reading Phoenix. Not a good sign for a small budget team hoping to piece together enough dollars to run the full season.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to Dave Despain, Finch said that the car will head to Kansas and Talladega where they hoped to crack into the top-10. Thus far the #51 car driven by Busch has been hampered by bad luck and ha finished on the lead lap just twice in seven starts thus far this year.<\/p>\n<p>The team is coming off a 13th place run at Texas, their best finish this season was a 9th place run at Fontana. Busch sits a dismal 26th overall in the Sprint Cup driver standings.<\/p>\n<p>Busch signed a one year deal with Phoenix Racing after mutually agreeing to part ways with Penske Racing following a volatile incident at the 2011 season ending race at Homestead. While at Penske Racing he was a perennial contender for the series championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Racing owner James Finch praised the effort of driver Kurt Busch saying &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like a small team getting a big-time quarterback&#8221; still the team may miss races later this season if sponsorship can not be found. Busch ran the past race at Texas with a red and white colored car reading Phoenix. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[372,513],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kurt-busch","8":"tag-phoenix-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","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=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}