{"id":527742,"date":"2010-04-14T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/14\/kasey-kahne-leaving-petty-motorsports-likely-landing-at-hendric\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:29:00","slug":"kasey-kahne-leaving-petty-motorsports-likely-landing-at-hendrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527742","title":{"rendered":"Kasey Kahne leaving Petty Motorsports, likely landing at Hendrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/motorsports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Motorsports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/rumormill\/\" rel=\"tag\">Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motorsports.fanhouse.com\/2010\/04\/13\/report-kasey-kahne-signs-with-hendrick-motorsports\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/kasey-kahne-pondering-getty-630.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word has it the ever-voracious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/10\/29\/callaway-building-hendrick-motorsports-25th-anniv-2010-camaro-s\/\">Hendrick Motorsports<\/a> is about to sink its teeth into even more talent. Kasey Kahne just announced he won&#8217;t be renewing his contract with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/04\/10\/return-of-the-king-71-year-old-richard-petty-to-field-a-team-in\/\">Richard Petty<\/a> Motorsports at the end of this year, meaning the guy probably has his eyes set on making his way to the same team as Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Dale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/earnhardt-inspired-intimidator-coaster-takes-inaugural-plunge-w\/\">Earnhardt<\/a> Jr. and the rest. Needless to say, the internet is rife with rumors of the move.<\/p>\n<p>Kahne currently pilots the No. 9 Budweiser car, and has snapped up 11 wins during his time as a pro-driver. Despite deciding not to re-up with Richard Petty Motorsports, the King himself had nothing but praise and well-wishes for Kahne, so it doesn&#8217;t look like anyone&#8217;s left on bad terms.<\/p>\n<p>The only hitch in Kahne&#8217;s rumored move to Hendrick lies in the fact that the team doesn&#8217;t have an open slot at the moment, meaning a current Hendricks driver would have to be eying another opportunity elsewhere. That doesn&#8217;t sound overly likely to us, especially considering that most of the drivers are locked into contracts that run well beyond Kahne&#8217;s supposed 2012 sign-on deal.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/motorsports.fanhouse.com\/2010\/04\/13\/report-kasey-kahne-signs-with-hendrick-motorsports\/\">Fanhouse<\/a> | Image: Tom Pennington\/Getty for NASCAR]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/14\/kasey-kahne-leaving-petty-motorsports-likely-landing-at-hendric\/\">Kasey Kahne leaving Petty Motorsports, likely landing at Hendrick<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:29:00 EST.  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Kasey Kahne just announced he won&#8217;t be renewing his contract with Richard Petty Motorsports at the end of this year, meaning the guy probably has his eyes set on making his way to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}