{"id":1770,"date":"2012-04-20T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:03:56","slug":"pastrana-making-nationwide-debut-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/04\/20\/pastrana-making-nationwide-debut-at-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastrana making Nationwide debut at Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Travis+Pastrana+Samsung+Mobile+500+PEetHnilmbrl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\" \/>The long awaited debut of Travis Pastrana in NASCAR is set to happen during next weekends Nationwide race at Richmond. Pastrana will get behind the wheel of the #99 Toyota which was formed out of an alliance between RAB Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Pastrana was set to make his Nationwide debut last season in July but suffered an injury at the ESPN X-Games. After the injury plans for him to drive in the Nationwide Series were pushed back until 2012. Waltrip later stopped fielding cars in the Nationwide Series.<\/p>\n<p>While RAB was looking for sponsorship dollars to keep their team going, Waltrip was out looking for a way to get Pastrana guaranteed a starting spot. The result was a match as the #09 Toyota which had been driven by Kenny Wallace will be driven by MWR drivers whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever we have an opportunity to go Nationwide racing with any of our   drivers, it will be in the #99 at RAB Racing,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Early plans were for Pastrana to run seven Nationwide races this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long awaited debut of Travis Pastrana in NASCAR is set to happen during next weekends Nationwide race at Richmond. Pastrana will get behind the wheel of the #99 Toyota which was formed out of an alliance between RAB Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. Pastrana was set to make his Nationwide debut last season in [&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":[521,640],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-rab-racing","8":"tag-travis-pastrana"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","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=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}