{"id":24562,"date":"2023-05-06T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=41585"},"modified":"2023-05-06T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T15:18:20","slug":"matt-kenseth-to-run-eldora-srx-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/2023\/05\/06\/matt-kenseth-to-run-eldora-srx-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Kenseth to run Eldora SRX race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41586\" src=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/kensethsrx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenseth will join Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) at Eldora Speedway in New Weston, Ohio for the August 10th race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I ever raced on dirt was Eldora, it was at Tony\u2019s Prelude to the dream. My background was<br \/>\nall asphalt racing and I remember how much fun I had that night, and said if I could go back and do anything different it would have been to race dirt earlier in my career,\u201d said Kenseth in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Kenseth won the 2003 NASCAR Cup Series title, to Daytona 500s and had 39 wins in NASCAR&#8217;s top division across 697 races. Last season he had two podium finishes in SRX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome back to one of the very best short track racers and now a NASCAR Hall of Famer,\u201d said SRX<br \/>\nChief Executive Officer, Don Hawk. \u201cHaving you back at Eldora was a goal, each race on dirt you got<br \/>\nbetter and better, and perhaps the best is yet to come. Matt\u2019s humble, hungry and smart and were lucky to have him back with SRX this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Kenseth will join Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) at Eldora Speedway in New Weston, Ohio for the August 10th race. \u201cThe first time I ever raced on dirt was Eldora, it was at Tony\u2019s Prelude to the dream. My background was all asphalt racing and I remember how much fun I had that night, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256,788],"tags":[1257,417],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-24562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-featured","8":"category-news","9":"tag-eldora-speeday","10":"tag-matt-kenseth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562","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=24562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}