{"id":210287,"date":"2025-10-13T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210287\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:04:08","slug":"nascar-team-surprisingly-parts-ways-with-driver-late-in-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210287\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR team surprisingly parts ways with driver late in 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Xfinity Series team made a surprising personnel decision early Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Viking Motorsports announced that driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/players\/matt_dibenedetto\/202541\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt DiBenedetto<\/a>, the team&#8217;s full-time driver, will not contest the final three races of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, with Connor Mosack stepping in as DiBenedetto&#8217;s replacement. Per a team release, the organization will share its 2026 driver lineup &#8220;at a later date.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASCAR Xfinity Series team made a surprising personnel decision early Monday morning.\u00a0 Viking Motorsports announced that driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-210287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}