{"id":9382,"date":"2016-05-31T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9382"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:13:33","slug":"byrd-97-and-byrd-98-sponsor-indy-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/05\/31\/byrd-97-and-byrd-98-sponsor-indy-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Byrd \u201997 and Byrd \u201998 sponsor Indy racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/05\/31\/byrd-97-and-byrd-98-sponsor-indy-racing\/byrd-jonathan1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9383\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9383 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/Byrd-Jonathan1.jpg\" alt=\"Byrd,-Jonathan(1)\" width=\"90\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a> Jonathan Byrd \u201997 <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/05\/31\/byrd-97-and-byrd-98-sponsor-indy-racing\/byrd-david1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9384\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9384 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/Byrd-David1.jpg\" alt=\"Byrd,-David(1)\" width=\"90\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a> David Byrd \u201998<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>have separate business interests, but together they share their love of racing via race car sponsorship.\u00a0 They sponsored their first Indy 500 one-race car in 2005, the next in 2015, and in 2016, they sponsor a full race season for Coyne Racing, including this year\u2019s Indy 500 last Sunday.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jconline.com\/story\/sports\/2016\/05\/27\/indy-500-2016\/84874658\/\">Click here<\/a> for the news story.<\/p>\n<p>The Byrd Brothers were on campus as part of the panel discussion for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=10789\">&#8220;IndyCar &amp; The Liberal Arts&#8221; <\/a>on April 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/05\/31\/byrd-97-and-byrd-98-sponsor-indy-racing\/indycar-wabash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9387\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9387\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/Indycar-wabash.png\" alt=\"Indycar wabash\" width=\"92\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/Indycar-wabash.png 288w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/Indycar-wabash-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Byrd \u201997 and David Byrd \u201998 have separate business interests, but together they share their love of racing via race car sponsorship.\u00a0 They sponsored their first Indy 500 one-race car in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/05\/Byrd-Jonathan1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}