{"id":18333,"date":"2015-03-26T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2015-03-26T00:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T04:59:51","slug":"brett-moffitt-no-55-aarons-dream-machine-toyota-martinsville-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/brett-moffitt-no-55-aarons-dream-machine-toyota-martinsville-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"BRETT MOFFITT NO. 55 AARONS DREAM MACHINE TOYOTA MARTINSVILLE PREVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fasfsgd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18334\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fasfsgd.jpg\" alt=\"fasfsgd\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>CORNELIUS, N.C. \u2014 It\u2019s been an eventful year for 22-year-old Brett Moffitt.<\/p>\n<p>He began the 2015 season without a ride but working with Michael Waltrip racing and Toyota Racing Development. That changed when he filled in for Brian Vickers at Atlanta on March 1 and drove the No. 55 Aaron\u2019s Dream Machine to an eighth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Moffitt was in high demand after the race and agreed to drive the No. 34 for Front Row Racing during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series\u2019 three-race West Coast swing. His life changed again last Friday when he was told he\u2019d drive the No. 55 in place of Brian Vickers at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend the Grimes, Iowa, native will drive the No. 55 Aaron\u2019s Dream Machine at Martinsville Speedway. One of his nine K&amp;N East Series victories came at the half-mile Virginia track in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>BRETT MOFFITT: \u201cLife is funny and this sport can be a crazy business at times. But I feel very fortunate to be where I am. Brian Vickers is a friend of mine and to see him go through what he\u2019s been going through is tough. He\u2019s such a battler. I\u2019m honored I can fill in for him and as much as I enjoy driving the Aaron\u2019s Dream Machine and driving in the Sprint Cup Series nothing would make me feel better than giving the keys back to Brian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil then my plan is to do the best I can do. My crew chief Billy Scott has been such an unbelievable help and it seems like I gain spots on pit road every time I come in. Those things make life easier for a rookie driver. I\u2019ve learned a lot so far this season. These guys in the Sprint Cup Series sure do know how to do restarts. I\u2019ve been smoked a couple of times already but I am starting to get the hang of it. Last weekend in Fontana we passed 10 cars on the first green-white-checkered and then I lost some spots on the next one. But that will get better each week. I\u2019ll figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartinsville is a tough track but it\u2019s the type of track I am more used to driving from my days in the K&amp;N East Series. I have a Grandfather clock from winning there in 2010 which is kind of cool. Not many can say that. Now the competition is certainly going to be a heck of a lot tougher this weekend and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever raced a 500-lap race anywhere. So it\u2019s going to be all about staying patient and just racing the track and not get worried about what everyone is doing around me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORNELIUS, N.C. \u2014 It\u2019s been an eventful year for 22-year-old Brett Moffitt. He began the 2015 season without a ride but working with Michael Waltrip racing and Toyota Racing Development. That changed when he filled in for Brian Vickers at Atlanta on March 1 and drove the No. 55 Aaron\u2019s Dream Machine to an eighth-place [&hellip;]<\/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":[6884],"class_list":["post-18333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-sprint-cup","tag-martinsville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333","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=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18335,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions\/18335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}