{"id":22186,"date":"2019-09-22T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22186"},"modified":"2019-09-22T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:01:50","slug":"erik-jones-dqd-after-finishing-fourth-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/09\/22\/erik-jones-dqd-after-finishing-fourth-at-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Jones DQ\u2019d after finishing fourth at Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5643.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22185\" width=\"922\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5643.jpg 922w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5643-594x323.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5643-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5643-768x418.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Erik Jones now faces a must win situation at the upcoming Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Roval.<\/p>\n<p>After initially being credit with a fourth place finish behind teammates Martin Truex, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin the driver of the No. 20 car is now credited with a 38th place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is 44 points behind the cutoff line for advancement into the Round of 12.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first disqualification in the Cup Series since NASCAR instituted tough penalties<\/p>\n<p>Jay Fabian, series director, said that Jones&#8217; car failed its pass through the Optical Scanning Station and the issue dealt with the car\u2019s rear-wheel alignment. He indicated inspectors did not find a part designed to fail to gain an advantage during the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Jones now faces a must win situation at the upcoming Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Roval. After initially being credit with a fourth place finish behind teammates Martin Truex, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin the driver of the No. 20 car is now credited with a 38th place finish. Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[735,789,319,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-erik-jones","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-joe-gibbs-racing","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186","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=22186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22186"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}