{"id":12105,"date":"2009-05-12T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2009-05-12T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T19:32:08","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-indy-car-nascar-why-has-american-racing-got-so-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12105","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing Indy Car NASCAR &#8211; Why Has American Racing Got So Boring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What is wrong with the American racing scene? As I watch NASCAR, I get to the point that I enjoy it less and less, as the season goes on. I only watch the IRL\/CART during the Indy 500 and only because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always watched the 500. I have been an avid drag racer and have promoted the sport and use to follow Pro Stock faithfully.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now it seems almost uninteresting, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve moved to following the Top Fuel and Funny Car ranks, and pray I get to see a Sportsman class race. Yet, I still love Sports Car racing and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve even gotten back into watching Formula 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why have I gotten so down about the professional auto racing series in America?\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/172080-why-has-american-racing-got-so-boring\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with the American racing scene? As I watch NASCAR, I get to the point that I enjoy it less and less, as the season goes on. I only watch the IRL\/CART during the Indy 500 and only because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always watched the 500. I have been an avid drag racer and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105","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=12105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12105\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}