{"id":61210,"date":"2019-04-04T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=61210"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:14:52","slug":"nascar-gander-outdoors-truck-series-driver-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-gander-outdoors-truck-series-driver-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Driver Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"61211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-gander-outdoors-truck-series-driver-suspended\/austin-self_feature-image-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min.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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Driver Suspended\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Driver Suspended\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR officials put the hammer down on NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Austin Wayne Self this weekend after he violated the sanctioning body\u2019s substance abuse policy.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Austin, Texas native and former AM Racing driver was subjected to a random drug test earlier this season in Daytona. A test has since come back positive for a banned substance that has yet to be determined, which has led to his indefinite suspension from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who has 66 starts in the Truck Series which have led to five top-10 finishes, will be forced to participate in the NASCAR Road to Recovery program before being reinstated. Following this suspension, Self has apologized to both his team and fans on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kQCGkjhigC\">pic.twitter.com\/kQCGkjhigC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Wayne Self (@AustinWSelf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustinWSelf\/status\/1113102360677679106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Self\u2019s family race team will continue to operate as normal with a driver lineup that is soon to be announced. Stay tuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/\">RacingJunk.com<\/a> as this story unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NASCAR officials put the hammer down on NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Austin Wayne Self this weekend after he violated the sanctioning body\u2019s substance abuse policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":61211,"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":[3424,3470,5029],"tags":[6760,1619,127,41,1632,4970,4313],"class_list":["post-61210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-racing","tag-austin-wayne-self","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-rules","tag-truck-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Self_Feature-IMAGE-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-fVg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61210","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61212,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61210\/revisions\/61212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}