{"id":19416,"date":"2019-02-13T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19416"},"modified":"2019-02-13T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T02:15:09","slug":"kyle-busch-and-jgr-talking-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/02\/13\/kyle-busch-and-jgr-talking-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch and JGR talking contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19417\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/kylebusch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/kylebusch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/kylebusch-594x396.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/02\/kylebusch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing are nearing a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in discussions right now,\u201d Busch said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking. It\u2019s all been agreed to. It\u2019s just a matter of putting a pen to the paper, so. We\u2019re all good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Busch&#8217;s 51 career wins in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is second among active drivers and all but four have come as the driver of the No. 18 Toyota.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All the countless hours of playing Mario Kart prepared me for this moment &#x1f344;&#x1f34c;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x1f3c1; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJxLruw3a9\">pic.twitter.com\/JJxLruw3a9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kyle Busch (@KyleBusch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleBusch\/status\/1095125332095651845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While he nears 200 wins across the top three series of NASCAR and owns a MENCS Championship the one trophy Busch has found elusive so far is the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing are nearing a contract extension. \u201cWe\u2019re in discussions right now,\u201d Busch said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking. It\u2019s all been agreed to. It\u2019s just a matter of putting a pen to the paper, so. We\u2019re all good.\u201d Busch&#8217;s 51 career wins in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is second among active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,375,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-19416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-kyle-busch","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416","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=19416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}