{"id":883,"date":"2022-06-27T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T23:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/?p=883"},"modified":"2022-06-27T22:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T02:09:32","slug":"kyle-busch-gets-first-look-at-north-wilkesboro-during-alien-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/27\/kyle-busch-gets-first-look-at-north-wilkesboro-during-alien-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch gets first look at North Wilkesboro during \u201calien abduction\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By: Reid Spencer &#8211; NASCAR Wire Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the filming of a new commercial for the return of Toyota \u201cSponsafier\u201d campaign, Kyle Busch got his first look inside North Wilkesboro Speedway, which will undergo a series of transformations later this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the new ad titled \u201cAlien,\u201d Busch watches as his brother Kurt is beamed up into a spaceship and presumably carried away. (Spoiler alert: Kurt was back in time for practice and qualifying at Nashville Superspeedway.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the filming, however, Kyle Busch saw the potential of North Wilkesboro, which will return to action in August with a month of late-model races, after which the pavement will be removed to accommodate a slate of dirt races in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toyota Sponsafier Commercial\" width=\"715\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUlEoU9FJnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A repave will follow, with the hope of possible NASCAR racing at in the future of the historic track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt can be successful, and it can turn into something nice,\u201d Busch said. \u201cSo I&#8217;m looking forward to it, if they put something there. I think it would be sweet. I know, from my understanding anyways, I know Dale (Earnhardt Jr.) is looking forward to running a late model stock race if he can. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd so, you know, it&#8217;d be nice to see that place come back to life, and whether it&#8217;s an All-Star Race or a Truck race or Xfinity, whatever, I think that we can make something happen there for sure.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Reid Spencer &#8211; NASCAR Wire Service During the filming of a new commercial for the return of Toyota \u201cSponsafier\u201d campaign, Kyle Busch got<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.savethespeedway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}