{"id":22321,"date":"2019-10-12T22:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T02:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22321"},"modified":"2019-10-12T22:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T02:47:23","slug":"crafton-expected-to-replace-menard-early-at-talladega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/10\/12\/crafton-expected-to-replace-menard-early-at-talladega\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafton expected to replace Menard early at Talladega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_5974.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22320\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_5974.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_5974-594x334.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_5974-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_5974-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/img_5974-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Standby driver Matt Crafton is expected to take over the seat of the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing entry early in Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Menard will start in the No. 21 Ford Mustang but ongoing issues with discs in his neck figure to make his day a short one.<\/p>\n<p>Crafton saw action in the car during Friday&#8217;s practice session and finished eight in the Gander Outdoors Truck Series race on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"margin-top: 20px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none\">\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px\">\u201cMy neck has some disc issues and things that if I were to get upside down, it would be pretty bad,\u201d said Menard. &#8220;Normal hits aren\u2019t bad. It\u2019s upside down things that are bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 15px 0px\">Menard will roll off 14th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standby driver Matt Crafton is expected to take over the seat of the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing entry early in Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega. Paul Menard will start in the No. 21 Ford Mustang but ongoing issues with discs in his neck figure to make his day a short one. Crafton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,415,708,503],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22321","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-front","11":"tag-matt-crafton","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-paul-menard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321","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=22321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22321"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}