{"id":24551,"date":"2016-02-24T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=24551"},"modified":"2016-02-24T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:35:09","slug":"stewart-haas-racing-switches-to-ford-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/stewart-haas-racing-switches-to-ford-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart-Haas Racing Switches to Ford in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/usa-today-8876251.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/stewart-haas-racing-switches-to-ford-in-2017\/usa-today-8876251-0\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/usa-today-8876251.0.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"usa-today-8876251.0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/usa-today-8876251.0.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/usa-today-8876251.0.jpg\" class=\" size-full wp-image-24556 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/usa-today-8876251.0.jpg\" alt=\"usa-today-8876251.0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stewart-Haas Racing, winners of two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships and 30 point-paying races, will campaign Ford Fusions beginning in 2017. The four-car team will compete with Ford engines prepared by Roush Yates Engines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud of our association with Chevrolet as they helped build our organization into the team it is today,&#8221; said Tony Stewart, co-owner, Stewart-Haas Racing. &#8220;This new partnership with Ford allows us to strengthen our position in the sport and ensure the long-term stability and success for everyone who is a part of Stewart-Haas Racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motorsports is an extremely challenging environment where in order to maintain success you have to constantly innovate. It\u2019s true in NASCAR and it\u2019s true in business,&#8221; said Gene Haas, co-owner, Stewart-Haas Racing. &#8220;We\u2019ve enjoyed great success with Chevrolet, but this opportunity with Ford allows us to evolve while continuing to compete at the highest levels of the sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the very beginning of Stewart-Haas Racing we have fostered an environment of competitiveness, performance, teamwork and family,&#8221; said Brett Frood, team president. &#8220;This future partnership enables us to continue delivering across these silos and exceed our commitments to our fans, partners and employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Team Will Field Ford Fusions in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24558,"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":[3424],"tags":[3823,127,4110,4015],"class_list":["post-24551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-shr","tag-stewart-haas-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/usa-today-8876251.0-2-e1456364097451.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-6nZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551","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=24551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24559,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions\/24559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}