{"id":14233,"date":"2009-06-09T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T01:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14233"},"modified":"2009-06-09T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T02:56:27","slug":"automobile-nascar-has-the-nascar-economy-hit-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14233","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Has the NASCAR economy hit a wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When we try and evaluate the overall economy of NASCAR we must take into account as many of the economic indicators as we can. Of course this analysis comes on the heels of the news that Red Horse Racing has shut down the #1 truck team of Johnny Benson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While that news is very sad, and the loss of Benson is a substantial one for the truck series, this news is particularly troublesome for other reasons. Benson is the defending champion of this series and currently sits 7th in the points. The failure to secure Benson a sponsor for the remainder of the season could be a failure of the Red Horse racing sales division, or a indicator that sponsors do not want to be a part of this series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What is does indicate is this &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-1617-Detroit-NASCAR-Examiner~y2009m6d9-Has-the-NASCAR-economy-hit-a-wall\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we try and evaluate the overall economy of NASCAR we must take into account as many of the economic indicators as we can. Of course this analysis comes on the heels of the news that Red Horse Racing has shut down the #1 truck team of Johnny Benson. While that news is very sad, [&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-14233","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\/14233","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=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14235,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions\/14235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}