{"id":28709,"date":"2016-07-13T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=28709"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:36:09","slug":"keith-haney-to-skip-pdra-race-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/keith-haney-to-skip-pdra-race-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Haney to skip PDRA race in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things in life Keith Haney enjoys more than racing his &#8220;Notorious&#8221; Pro Nitrous drag racing car, and one of those, of course, is his family.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of racing in the PDRA North-South Shootout this weekend at Maryland Int&#8217;l Raceway, Haney will be supporting his son Logan as his youth baseball team travels to the USSSA World Series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some things are more important than drag racing,&#8221; Haney said. &#8220;And this is one of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28710\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/keith-haney-to-skip-pdra-race-in-maryland\/unnamed-1-37\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"389,519\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unnamed (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg\" class=\" size-full wp-image-28710 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" width=\"389\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/unnamed-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logan is an integral member of the Oklahoma Xplosion 9-and-under baseball team that is competing for a World Series berth. Keith Haney Racing sponsors the team on the road to the World Series, and Haney is an active supporter of his son.<\/p>\n<p>Haney and his Keith Haney Racing team have been mainstays on the eighth-mile drag racing circuit for years. He currently sits sixth in the Pro Nitrous points standings with his Lucas Oil\/RacingJunk.com Chevrolet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re having a great year,&#8221; Haney said. &#8220;We&#8217;re high up on the points, and I&#8217;m not going to the race, so it hurts. But drag racing isn&#8217;t my life and Logan will only be 9 years old once, so he definitely takes priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haney wants his fans to know he will race Notorious and Enigma again this year. Where and when?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stay tuned,&#8221; Haney said.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors Lucas Oil, RacingJunk.com, Switzer Dynamics, Pesz Performance &amp; Tuning, Reher-Morrison, M&amp;M Transmission, and Adam Lambert from Precision Racing Suspension help make Haney&#8217;s PDRA team possible, and he continues to appreciate the support from wife Dee and children Timber, Alex, Madison, and Logan.<\/p>\n<p>Haney&#8217;s family of car dealerships includes Suburban Chevrolet in Claremore; Classic Chevrolet in Owasso, Okla.; Miami Auto Supercenter in Miami, Okla.; Regional Hyundai in Broken Arrow, Okla.; Nissan of Muskogee, Okla.; and Bartlesville (Okla.) Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>There are few things in life Keith Haney enjoys more than racing his &#8220;Notorious&#8221; Pro Nitrous drag racing car, and one of those, of course, is his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28711,"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":[1082],"tags":[3968,699,598],"class_list":["post-28709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-keith-haney","tag-keith-haney-racing","tag-lucas-oil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/download.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-7t3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28709","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=28709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28712,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28709\/revisions\/28712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}