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CONCORD, N.C. (June 18, 2019)<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup race in Sonoma will mark the end of an era in the sport, with legendary driver\/announcer Darrell Waltrip hanging up his microphone after 19 years in the TV booth. In honor of Waltrip\u2019s last call, Roush Fenway Racing and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will pay homage to the former driver and Hall of Famer with a special chrome numbered paint scheme on the No. 17 Ford Mustang. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDarrell Waltrip has meant a great deal to our sport as both a competitor and a member of the broadcast media,\u201d said Jack Roush, a fellow member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. \u201cThe thing that stands out to me about Darrell is that after I just announced I was starting the team with Mark Martin, I was invited into a driver\u2019s meeting that season. Darrell Waltrip was one of the first to welcome me into the fold and say \u2018come on in Jack, we are going to have a lot of fun with you\u2019 and we sure have over the years.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n Waltrip piloted the No. 17 car in NASCAR\u2019s premiere series from 1987 to 1998, sporting some of the most iconic paint schemes in the sports history. <\/span><\/p>\n Current No. 17 driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has long been a fan of Waltrip and this will mark the third time he has paid tribute to Waltrip on the No. 17, the first two coming at the Darlington throwback events. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWith as much as he\u2019s done in the sport on and off the track, Darrell will definitely be missed,\u201d Stenhouse said. \u201cI have enjoyed all the sit-downs and seeing his passion that he has for the sport. I\u2019ve gotten to pay homage to him with two Darlington throwback schemes so it will be extra special to drive his iconic paint scheme for his last appearance in the booth.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2016 Stenhouse sported an orange and white Ford, with blue numbers that gave nod to Waltrip\u2019s first winning car from 1975. The second came in 2017 with a car carrying the paint scheme from Waltrip\u2019s 1997 NASCAR Cup season; one of Stenhouse\u2019s favorite paint schemes along with the all-chrome variety Waltrip also ran that same season.<\/p>\n The Ford will also feature Roush Performance on the hood and Stenhouse\u2019s primary sponsor Fastenal on the quarter panel and decklid.<\/p>\n Sunday\u2019s race is set for 3:00 p.m. EST on FS1 and can also be heard on MRN and SIRIUSXM NASCAR Channel 90.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CONCORD, N.C. (June 18, 2019) \u2013 Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup race in Sonoma will mark the end of an era in the sport, with legendary driver\/announcer Darrell Waltrip hanging up his microphone after 19 years in the TV booth. In honor of Waltrip\u2019s last call, Roush Fenway Racing and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will pay homage to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424","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=21424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21424"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}