{"id":26131,"date":"2019-12-21T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=26131"},"modified":"2019-12-21T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:15:57","slug":"statement-from-nascar-chairman-and-ceo-jim-france-on-the-passing-of-junior-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/12\/statement-from-nascar-chairman-and-ceo-jim-france-on-the-passing-of-junior-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from NASCAR Chairman and CEO Jim France on the Passing of Junior Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (December 20, 2019)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cJunior Johnson truly was the \u2018Last American Hero.\u2019\u00a0From his early days running moonshine through the end of his life, Junior wholly embodied the NASCAR spirit. He was an inaugural NASCAR Hall of Famer, a nod to an extraordinary career as both a driver and team owner.\u00a0Between his on-track accomplishments and his introduction of Winston to the sport, few have contributed to the success of NASCAR as Junior has. The entire NASCAR family is saddened by the loss of a true giant of our sport, and we offer our deepest condolences to Junior\u2019s family and friends during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Junior Johnson&#039;s stirring, humorous speech at NASCAR Hall of Fame induction\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZdmGzsO_l0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (December 20, 2019)\u00a0\u2013 \u201cJunior Johnson truly was the \u2018Last American Hero.\u2019\u00a0From his early days running moonshine through the end of his life, Junior wholly embodied the NASCAR spirit. He was an inaugural NASCAR Hall of Famer, a nod to an extraordinary career as both a driver and team owner.\u00a0Between his on-track accomplishments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26132,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26131\/revisions\/26132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}