{"id":20308,"date":"2009-09-10T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T00:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2009-09-10T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T00:33:36","slug":"automobile-nascar-petty-to-absorb-yates-car-will-race-fords-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20308","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Petty to absorb Yates car, will race Fords in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing on Thursday announced they have signed a letter of intent to merge operations in time for the 2010 season. The four-car team will race Fords under the Richard Petty Motorsports banner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paul Menard will transfer to the Petty team, joining Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and A.J. Allmendinger. Sources have confirmed that Reed Sorenson, currently the driver of Petty&#8217;s famed No. 43, will not be back with the team next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This is a pretty big deal for us. We&#8217;re thrilled to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/09\/10\/rpetty.yates.ford\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/headlines\/cup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Petty Motorsports and Yates Racing on Thursday announced they have signed a letter of intent to merge operations in time for the 2010 season. The four-car team will race Fords under the Richard Petty Motorsports banner. Paul Menard will transfer to the Petty team, joining Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and A.J. Allmendinger. Sources have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20310,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions\/20310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}