{"id":11145,"date":"2009-05-02T20:35:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T03:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2009-05-02T22:38:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T05:38:43","slug":"automobile-nascar-kurt-busch-feeling-need-for-speed-as-dodge-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11145","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Kurt Busch feeling need for speed as Dodge face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader through the first nine races, Kurt Busch suddenly feels some additional outside pressure to keep performing well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how it is when you are driving a Dodge in NASCAR these days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dodge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parent company, Chrysler, filed for bankruptcy Thursday, and while talk of the company selling many of its assets to Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA could mark the beginning of a long-term plan for Chrysler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survival, Busch is a face of the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do feel a small bit of responsibility carrying the Dodge banner in NASCAR,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said at Richmond International Raceway, the site of Saturday night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Crown Royal 400 Cup race&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-richmondnotebook&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader through the first nine races, Kurt Busch suddenly feels some additional outside pressure to keep performing well. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how it is when you are driving a Dodge in NASCAR these days. Dodge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parent company, Chrysler, filed for bankruptcy Thursday, and while talk of the company selling many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11145\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}