{"id":9214,"date":"2012-01-05T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2012-01-05T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T17:56:06","slug":"johanna-long-moves-to-ml-motorsports-to-pilot-the-no-70-chevrolet-in-2012-and-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/series\/johanna-long-moves-to-ml-motorsports-to-pilot-the-no-70-chevrolet-in-2012-and-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Johanna Long Moves to ML Motorsports to Pilot the No 70 Chevrolet in 2012 and 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ML_NW_Deal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9215\" title=\"ML_NW_Deal\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ML_NW_Deal-275x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">ML Racing announced today that <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johannalong.com\/\">Johanna Long <\/a>will drive the No. 70 Biomet \u2013 Foretravel Motorcoach Chevrolet Impala for the 2012 and 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Long, a Pensacola, Fl native is the winner of the 2010 Snowball Derby. She began her NASCAR career in 2011, driving a limited schedule in the Camping World Truck Series for Panhandle Motorsports.\u00a0 Long qualified in the 5th place position in her first start at Daytona. Her career best finish to date was 11th place at Texas Motor Speedway.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Long will join a team that is owned by Mary Louise Miller, one of the few female owners in NASCAR. Miller is known as a big supporter of women in racing. At nineteen, Long becomes the youngest female driver to compete in the Nationwide Series, and she will be competing for Rookie of the Year in 2012.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cI\u2019m excited to join ML Motorsports, and I\u2019m honored to have the support of Mary Louise\u201d, said Long.\u00a0 \u201cAs a female team owner in NASCAR, Mary Louise is an inspiration to me. I believe all the pieces are in place at ML Motorsports to achieve success in 2012, and I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u201cJohanna is a strong driver and a dynamic young lady, and we are excited to have her on board\u201d, said Mary Louise Miller.\u00a0 \u201cShe has a great competitive spirit; we believe she has everything it takes to succeed at the highest levels of NASCAR competition\u201d.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Long began racing at the age of 8 accumulating numerous wins at tracks across the southeast.\u00a0 At 14, she burst onto the late model scene, and in 2008 at 15, she racked up several wins en route to becoming the first female and youngest driver to win a track championship at Five Flags Speedway. Long made her foray into the NCWTS at age 18.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ML Racing announced today that Johanna Long will drive the No. 70 Biomet \u2013 Foretravel Motorcoach Chevrolet Impala for the 2012 and 2013 NASCAR Nationwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-nascar","category-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9227,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9214\/revisions\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}