{"id":17731,"date":"2015-01-22T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17731"},"modified":"2015-01-22T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T12:03:08","slug":"brian-vickers-medically-cleared-race-early-march-scheduled-make-2015-sprint-cup-debut-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/brian-vickers-medically-cleared-race-early-march-scheduled-make-2015-sprint-cup-debut-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIAN VICKERS MEDICALLY CLEARED TO RACE IN EARLY MARCH SCHEDULED TO MAKE 2015 SPRINT CUP DEBUT IN LAS VEGAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ghfghfghfg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17732\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ghfghfghfg.jpg\" alt=\"ghfghfghfg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>CORNELIUS, N.C. \u2013 Doctors have medically cleared Brian Vickers to return to full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup racing in early March, three months after corrective heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Vickers will make his season debut in the No. 55 Aaron\u2019s Dream Machine Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>MWR co-founder and two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip will drive the No. 55 in the 57th annual Daytona 500 on Feb. 22. MWR will name a substitute driver for the March 1 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe doctors gave me a clean bill of health and said I will be better than before,\u201d said Vickers, the 31-year-old Thomasville, N.C. native whose health issues interrupted his racing seasons in 2010 and again in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORNELIUS, N.C. \u2013 Doctors have medically cleared Brian Vickers to return to full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup racing in early March, three months after corrective heart surgery. Vickers will make his season debut in the No. 55 Aaron\u2019s Dream Machine Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-17731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-sprint-cup","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17733,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions\/17733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}