{"id":21676,"date":"2019-07-21T22:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21676"},"modified":"2019-07-21T22:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T02:17:58","slug":"justin-haleys-crew-chief-passes-away-at-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/07\/21\/justin-haleys-crew-chief-passes-away-at-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Haley&#8217;s crew chief passes away at 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21677\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/harrisonhaley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/harrisonhaley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/harrisonhaley-594x395.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/harrisonhaley-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/harrisonhaley-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick Harrison, who had served as a NASCAR crew chief dating back to 2006, passed away at age 37 according to Kaulig Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison was the crew chief for Saturday&#8217;s Xfinity Series race with driver Justin Haley in the No. 11 Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from team owner Matt Kaulig and team president Chris Rice read: \u201cIt is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Nick Harrison, our beloved crew chief of the No. 11 car at Kaulig Racing. Please keep Nick\u2019s family in your thoughts and prayers at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 184 Xfinity Series races Harrison was crew chief for five wins with Kurt Busch, Paul Menard and Austin Dillon (3). He also saw a win in the Truck Series with Austin Dillon. Harrison also was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series crew chief for 120 races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the loss of longtime crew chief Nick Harrison, and offer our thoughts, prayers and support to his family, friends and Kaulig Racing colleagues,\u201d NASCAR said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Harrison, who had served as a NASCAR crew chief dating back to 2006, passed away at age 37 according to Kaulig Racing. Harrison was the crew chief for Saturday&#8217;s Xfinity Series race with driver Justin Haley in the No. 11 Chevrolet. A statement from team owner Matt Kaulig and team president Chris Rice read: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[789,1037,708,478],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-21676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-justin-haley","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-new-hampshire-motor-speedway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676","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=21676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21676"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}