{"id":6001,"date":"2013-02-12T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2013-02-12T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:26:16","slug":"video-matt-kenseth-driving-18-gamestop-toyota-in-nationwide-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/02\/12\/video-matt-kenseth-driving-18-gamestop-toyota-in-nationwide-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Matt Kenseth driving #18 GameStop Toyota in Nationwide series"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6002\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6002\" alt=\"gamestop\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/gamestop.jpg\" width=\"653\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/gamestop.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/gamestop-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2012 GameStop Camry &#8211; Larry Scavnicky\/Front Stretch Photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt Kenseth is starting the 2013 season on a new team, Joe Gibbs Racing, driving the No.20 Home Depot Toyota. Kenseth on Tuesday, made another announcement, and its worth a watch &#8211; because in all Kenseth glam &#8211; it is down right funny.<\/p>\n<p>Kenseth will be driving the No. 18 Toyota in the NASCAR Nationwide series sponsored by GameStop for ten races this season. Kenseth last raced in the Nationwide Series in 2011 when he won his only start of that year in the May race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IS32IbsXbsE?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During his career, Kenseth has started 248 races in the Nationwide Series and recorded 26 wins with 118 top-five and 168 top-10 finishes. He has also claimed 16 pole awards in the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember,\u201d Kenseth said. \u201cSo, I\u2019m pretty excited to be driving the GameStop Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Nationwide Series. The JGR teams were the class of the field last season, and GameStop has always created some pretty cool paint schemes, so I\u2019m looking forward to what\u2019s in store for this year. I can\u2019t wait to get back on track in the series and hopefully take our No. 18 Toyota to Victory Lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An interesting fact about GameStop is that since 2008 when they joined with JGR they have featured over 60 different paint schemes on the car. No other sponsor completely changes the scheme of the car for each race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GameStop Racing\u2019s 2013 Nationwide Series Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>DATE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>RACE<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Feb. 23<\/td>\n<td>Daytona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>May 10<\/td>\n<td>Darlington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>June 1<\/td>\n<td>Dover<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>July 5<\/td>\n<td>Daytona<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>July 27<\/td>\n<td>Indianapolis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sept. 14<\/td>\n<td>Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oct. 11<\/td>\n<td>Charlotte<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov. 2<\/td>\n<td>Texas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov. 9<\/td>\n<td>Phoenix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov. 16<\/td>\n<td>Homestead-Miami<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Kenseth is starting the 2013 season on a new team, Joe Gibbs Racing, driving the No.20 Home Depot Toyota. Kenseth on Tuesday, made another announcement, and its worth a watch &#8211; because in all Kenseth glam &#8211; it is down right funny. Kenseth will be driving the No. 18 Toyota in the NASCAR Nationwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[417],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-6001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-matt-kenseth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","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=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}