{"id":18594,"date":"2018-08-04T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T23:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18594"},"modified":"2018-08-04T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T23:56:15","slug":"bill-elliott-to-drive-nascar-xfinity-race-at-road-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/08\/04\/bill-elliott-to-drive-nascar-xfinity-race-at-road-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Elliott to drive NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18596\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott-594x410.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/elliott-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GMS Racing announced Saturday that 62-year-old Bill Elliott will drive the team\u2019s No. 23 ISM Connect Chevrolet Camaro in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Road America.<\/p>\n<p>The race will be Elliot&#8217;s first since Daytona in 2012. Elliott was part of the 2015 Hall of Fame class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"20\">\u201cWhen this opportunity came up from Mike (Beam), I had to jump on it,\u201d said Bill Elliott in a statement from the team. \u201cChase (Elliott) has ran a handful of races for the team so I figured I would give it a shot at Road America. Beam and I have worked together in the past so it will be exciting to get back behind the wheel and bring back some old memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"21\">\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Bill (Elliott) to the GMS Racing family,\u201d said president of GMS Racing, Mike Beam in a statement from the team. \u201cBill has many years in NASCAR and it\u2019s going to be great to watch him come back, especially in GMS equipment. Bill and I worked together back in the day and had a lot of success so hopefully we can pick up where we left off and create some more great memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"21\">Elliott had 44 Cup wins and 55 poles in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMS Racing announced Saturday that 62-year-old Bill Elliott will drive the team\u2019s No. 23 ISM Connect Chevrolet Camaro in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Road America. The race will be Elliot&#8217;s first since Daytona in 2012. Elliott was part of the 2015 Hall of Fame class. \u201cWhen this opportunity came up from Mike (Beam), I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,14,788],"tags":[789],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-xfinity","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594","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=18594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}