{"id":129050,"date":"2017-03-05T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=129050"},"modified":"2017-03-05T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:21:26","slug":"heres-why-nascar-is-cooler-and-more-relevant-than-you-think-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=129050","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why NASCAR Is Cooler (And More Relevant) Than You Think It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently got the opportunity to witness the Daytona 500 firsthand. Often referred to as \u201cThe Great American Race,\u201d the 500 is, for all intents and purposes, the Superbowl of stock car races.<\/p>\n<p>While stock car racing often induces eye rolls from fans of more \u201cadvanced\u201d racing series like Formula One and IMSA, the fact is that NASCAR is the most followed form of motorsport in America by a wide margin, and roughly one in every three adults in the U.S. is a fan of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Before the big event got underway we had a chance to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnology.com\/features\/interviews\/heres-why-nascar-is-cooler-and-more-relevant-than-you-think-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently got the opportunity to witness the Daytona 500 firsthand. Often referred to as \u201cThe Great American Race,\u201d the 500 is, for all intents and purposes, the Superbowl of stock car races. While stock car racing often induces eye rolls from fans of more \u201cadvanced\u201d racing series like Formula One and IMSA, the fact [&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-129050","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\/129050","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=129050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129051,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129050\/revisions\/129051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}