{"id":167607,"date":"2026-02-24T22:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:47:12","slug":"bucs-legend-jon-gruden-will-be-the-grand-marshal-of-st-pete-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167607\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs legend Jon Gruden will be the Grand Marshal of St. Pete grand prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg announced Jon Gruden has been named the Grand Marshal for the race.<\/p>\n<p>Gruden was head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they won Super Bowl XXXVII.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Marshal of the race participates in pre-race ceremonies, gives the command for drivers to start their engines, and takes a lap in the parade car ahead of the green flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t wait to see these great drivers in action and make some new friends. Looking forward to an amazing event!\u201d Gruden said.<\/p>\n<p>The Firestone Grand Prix takes place on March 1 and is the season-opening race of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ANNETTE.GUTIERREZ.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg rally marks 4 years since Russian attack on Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Former Citrus County Sheriff Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Dean Sr., who served the county for 16 years and later represented Florida in the Legislature, died on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg rally marks 4 years since Russian attack on Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg announced Jon Gruden has been named the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,79614,79615,70139,48975,10711,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-167607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-buc","10":"tag-grand-marshal","11":"tag-grand-prix","12":"tag-indy","13":"tag-jon-gruden","14":"tag-pinellas-county","15":"tag-st-pete","16":"tag-st-pete-headlines","17":"tag-st-pete-news","18":"tag-st-petersburg","19":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","20":"tag-st-petersburg-news","21":"tag-tampa-bay-28","22":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","23":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}