{"id":24642,"date":"2016-02-26T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=24642"},"modified":"2016-02-26T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T00:04:35","slug":"ty-dillon-to-replace-stewart-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ty-dillon-to-replace-stewart-in-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Dillon to Replace Stewart in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_20162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24645\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ty-dillon-to-replace-stewart-in-atlanta\/vickers_brian2_nscs_car_20162\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_20162-e1456530113882.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,331\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jeff Zelevansky&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 14, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1455457392&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2016 Getty Images&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_2016[2]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 14, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_20162-e1456530113882-300x155.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_20162-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24645 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_20162-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 14, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida.\" width=\"638\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stewart-Haas Racing with approval from Richard Childress Racing has confirmed that Ty Dillon will drive the No. 14 Chevrolet as their interim driver at the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway for just this weekend. He replaces Tony Stewart as he still heals from his non-racing all-terrain vehicle accident that has sidelined him with a burst L1 vertebra and out indefinitely since late January. \u00a0Brian Vickers, who drove the S-H Chevrolet last weekend at the Daytona 500 to a 26th place finish, will return to the cockpit next weekend for the Kobalt Tools 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Stewart-Haas Racing has said it has not yet determined a driver beyond that race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ty-dillon-to-replace-stewart-in-atlanta\/dillon_ty_nxs_head20161\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3221,4832\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chris Graythen&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;poses for a portrait during NASCAR Media Day at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1455623356&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2016 NASCAR&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head2016[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;poses for a portrait during NASCAR Media Day at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24644 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"poses for a portrait during NASCAR Media Day at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2016 in Daytona Beach, Florida.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dillon_Ty_NXS_Head20161-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have high expectations this weekend,\u201d said Dillon, who turns 25 this weekend. \u201cI always set my goals high and I want to run good in this car and do good for Tony and Stewart-Haas Racing. We should be able to run in the top 10 or top 15 and I\u2019m going to give it all I have. I want to go out there and impress a lot of people showing them what I\u2019m made of and what I can do in these race cars. Going back and forth is going to help me, I feel like, with our Xfinity car. It will be great to get two great finishes in Atlanta.\u201d Racing insiders are saying that Stewart could return in time for the Coca-Cola 600 Memorial Day weekend at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. \u00a0The Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 will be on FOX Network starting at 1 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ty Dillon will step into some big shoes.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24645,"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":[4130,127,1192,3106],"class_list":["post-24642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-fox","tag-nascar","tag-tony-stewart","tag-ty-dillon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vickers_Brian2_NSCS_Car_20162-e1456530113882.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-6ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24649,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24642\/revisions\/24649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}