{"id":11499,"date":"2015-01-26T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2015-01-29T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T23:32:11","slug":"john-force-racing-announces-promotions-and-crew-chief-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/john-force-racing-announces-promotions-and-crew-chief-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"John Force Racing Announces Promotions and Crew Chief Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11502\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/john-force-racing-announces-promotions-and-crew-chief-lineups\/johnforce\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"johnForce\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce.jpg\" class=\" size-full wp-image-11502 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce.jpg\" alt=\"johnForce\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Force Racing has announced new crew chief lineups, including the promotion of Jon Schaffer to crew chief of the PEAK Camaro SS Funny Car. Previously Schaffer was the assistant to crew chief for Robert Hight\u2019s Auto Club Camaro SS Funny Car; current crew chief Mike Neff will remain in his current position and be assisted by Tim Fabrisi. The PEAK Funny Car team has also added Nick Casertano as car chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have developed the next generation of drivers and now I want to do the same thing with our crew chiefs. We have so much young talent I want to start giving these guys a chance to grow and develop their talents,\u201d said John Force. \u00a0\u201cMike Neff, Ron Douglas, Dean Antonelli, Todd Smith and Dan Hood have a lot of experience and we want to continue to grow and be competitive at a championship level. Guys like Jon Schaffer and Tim Fabrisi as well as new hires Ronnie Thompson and Nick Casertano will keep us young and on the cutting edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team has promoted long-time crew chief Dean \u201cGuido\u201d Antonelli as General Manager of the JFR Brownsburg shop and hired Ronnie Thompson, formerly of Al-Anabi Racing, to assist Brittany Force\u2019s JFR Top Fuel dragster team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TeamJFR\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cWe have developed the next generation of drivers and now I want to do the same thing with our crew chiefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470],"tags":[38,1869,423,1460,440],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","tag-funny-car","tag-john-for","tag-john-force-racing","tag-peak-antifreeze-coolant","tag-robert-hight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/johnForce.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2Zt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11513,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions\/11513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}