{"id":7087,"date":"2019-07-22T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:18:15","slug":"bobby-mincer-unveils-knoxville-nationals-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/07\/22\/bobby-mincer-unveils-knoxville-nationals-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Mincer unveils Knoxville Nationals Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals is a little over two weeks away, and the paint scheme announcements are rolling in.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Jason Johnson Racing announced that\u00a0<strong>David Gravel&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/07\/22\/axalta-to-sponsor-jason-johnson-racing-david-gravel-for-knoxville-nationals\/\" target=\"_self\">No. 41 car would be layered in Axalta colors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little after, it was\u00a0<strong>Bobby Mincer&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>turn.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bobby Mincer unveils Knoxville Nationals Scheme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Burlington, IA native announced a new look to his No. 15 car for the Super Bowl of Sprint Car Racing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7091\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7091\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/07\/Bobby-Mincer-Shirt-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/07\/Bobby-Mincer-Shirt-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/07\/Bobby-Mincer-Shirt-768x721.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/07\/Bobby-Mincer-Shirt-696x654.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/07\/Bobby-Mincer-Shirt-447x420.jpg 447w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/07\/Bobby-Mincer-Shirt.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The T-Shirts that Mincer will be selling featuring the new paint scheme. Photo courtesy Bobby Mincer Racing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The design for the car features pink, blue, and yellow highlights to the car in a complete 180 from the USA scheme that hit the track during Nationals a season ago. It was designed by\u00a0<strong>Scott Keppel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Knoxville gives out an award at the Nationals for best appearing car, and both Mincer&#8217;s and Gravel&#8217;s will certainly be front-runners.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/08\/09\/bobby-mincer-thrilled-with-a-main-transfer-as-underdog-at-knoxville\/\" target=\"_self\">Mincer qualified for a Nationals preliminary night feature<\/a> after transferring into the race with a strong finish in his heat. For this team, it was a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>When Nationals week rolls around the team will be hoping for another strong run in their prelim night, trying to repeat the success they had last year.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though they&#8217;ll focus on Saturday&#8217;s Knoxville Championship Cup Series date that is paired with the Ollie&#8217;s Bargain Outlet All Star Circuit of Champions sprint cars.<\/p>\n<p>The ASCOC tour is owned by former NASCAR veteran\u00a0<strong>Tony Stewart\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; who will be racing on Saturday in the heartland along with Mincer like always.<\/p>\n<p>Mincer currently sits 15th in the Knoxville Cup Series standings and has corralled five A-Main starts this season in the series.<\/p>\n<p>The NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals will take place in the second week of August (Wednesday Aug. 7 \u2013 Saturday Aug. 11).\u00a0For more general sprint car coverage, give us a follow on twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/racingvault\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RacingVault<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals is a little over two weeks away, and the paint scheme announcements are rolling in. This morning, Jason Johnson Racing announced that\u00a0David Gravel&#8217;s\u00a0No. 41 car would be layered in Axalta colors. A little after, it was\u00a0Bobby Mincer&#8217;s\u00a0turn. Bobby Mincer unveils Knoxville Nationals Scheme The Burlington, IA native announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":7088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[1017,1185,1008,1181,1009],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing","tag-bobby-mincer","tag-knoxville-championship-cup-series","tag-knoxville-nationals","tag-nos-energy-drink-knoxville-nationals","tag-sprint-car-racing"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}