{"id":8460,"date":"2009-04-09T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2009-04-09T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:14:04","slug":"automobile-indy-car-patron-shots-for-everybody-scott-sharp-to-drive-indy-500-for-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8460","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Indy Car &#8211; Patron shots for everybody: Scott Sharp to drive Indy 500 for Panther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Former IndyCar Series star returning to the Brickyard<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Le Mans Series driver and 1996 IndyCar Series co-champion Scott Sharp will be back in an\u00c2\u00a0open-wheel car\u00c2\u00a0for &#8220;The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sharp, who\u00c2\u00a0was last seen in IndyCar\u00c2\u00a0two years ago with Rahal Letterman Racing, has signed with Panther Racing to drive the No. 16 Patron Tequila machine in the 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500 this May.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantherracing.com\/news\/index.cfm?cid=21424\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">full press release from Panther<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\"><p>INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (April 9, 2009) &#8211; Panther Racing announced today it has reached an agreement with veteran driver Scott Sharp and the Patr\u00c3\u00b3n Spirits Company to enter a car in the 93rd Running of the Indianapolis 500. Sharp last competed in the IndyCar Series in 2007 with Rahal-Letterman Racing, and is currently having a successful tenure in ALMS, where he is a member of Patr\u00c3\u00b3n Highcroft Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp will drive the No. 16 Tequila Patr\u00c3\u00b3n Panther Racing Honda Dallara&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mvn.com\/indyracingrevolution\/2009\/04\/patron-shots-for-everybody-scott-sharp-to-drive-indy-500-for-panther.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former IndyCar Series star returning to the Brickyard American Le Mans Series driver and 1996 IndyCar Series co-champion Scott Sharp will be back in an\u00c2\u00a0open-wheel car\u00c2\u00a0for &#8220;The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.&#8221; Sharp, who\u00c2\u00a0was last seen in IndyCar\u00c2\u00a0two years ago with Rahal Letterman Racing, has signed with Panther Racing to drive the No. 16 Patron Tequila [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","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=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}