{"id":12998,"date":"2009-05-23T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T04:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2009-05-23T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T04:44:19","slug":"automobile-nascar-sports-car-hendrick-is-a-man-of-his-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12998","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR Sports Car &#8211; Hendrick is a man of his people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A few days after Kyle Busch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s firing from Hendrick Motorsports, speculation ran rampant about who would stay to work with new hire Dale Earnhardt Jr. and who would follow Busch to wherever he landed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alan Gustafson quickly removed his name from the mix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather sweep floors for Rick Hendrick than be a crew chief for someone else,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gustafson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 25 years of racing in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top series, Hendrick has built a powerhouse organization of 500-plus employees who have a fierce loyalty to their boss. They love working for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mr. H.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and put 100-percent effort into job performance. If the grass is possibly greener elsewhere, few ever bother finding out&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=jf-hendrick052209&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days after Kyle Busch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s firing from Hendrick Motorsports, speculation ran rampant about who would stay to work with new hire Dale Earnhardt Jr. and who would follow Busch to wherever he landed. Alan Gustafson quickly removed his name from the mix. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather sweep floors for Rick Hendrick than be a crew chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","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=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13022,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/13022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}