{"id":22886,"date":"2019-11-18T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22886"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:45:45","slug":"joey-meier-stepping-away-from-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/18\/joey-meier-stepping-away-from-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Meier stepping away from NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22885\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468-594x396.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6468-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joey Meier has made the decision to step away from the NASCAR spotters stand.<\/p>\n<p>Meier, who haf been spotting for Paul Menard, is best known for his time as the eyes of Brad Keselowski in the No. 2 car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll good things must come to an end\u201d Meier (pictured above) wrote. \u201cMy \u2018good thing\u2019 for the past 23 years has come to an end \u2026 my choice this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meier is leaving NASCAR to focus soely on fkying planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASCAR was in my life WAY before Aviation, but flying is my profession,\u201d Meier wrote. \u201cNASCAR was just a huge bonus. I\u2019ll leave knowing I always tried my best (Thx to Big E and Pops) \u2026 being a small part of Wins and Championships, in all 3 series. \u2026 BUT it was more about being a part of a TEAM, thru thick\/then, winning\/defeat\/flying\/spotting, I cherished being part of THE TEAM. I will miss that. But that\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about my new team &amp; a new cockpit. Thank you for following along. Keep it up. I\u2019ll stay busy keeping the \u201cBLUE SIDE UP\u201d from here on out, I promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43VHUKlC3y\">pic.twitter.com\/43VHUKlC3y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joey Meier (@JoeyMeier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeyMeier\/status\/1196253771921317888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meier spotted for Keselowki from 2006 thru 2018 and was part of the Penske Racing chanpionship team. Other drivers who won titles with Meier helping guide them on track were Ron Hornaday Jr. and Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Meier has made the decision to step away from the NASCAR spotters stand. Meier, who haf been spotting for Paul Menard, is best known for his time as the eyes of Brad Keselowski in the No. 2 car. \u201cAll good things must come to an end\u201d Meier (pictured above) wrote. \u201cMy \u2018good thing\u2019 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[87,1167,708,503],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22886","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-brad-keselowski","11":"tag-joey-meier","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-paul-menard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22886","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=22886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}