{"id":14610,"date":"2009-06-15T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14610"},"modified":"2009-06-15T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:07:10","slug":"automobile-nascar-france-nascar-open-to-new-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14610","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; France: NASCAR open to new manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The fact Chevrolet joined Chrysler and Ford in cutting support to racing programs in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top three series is hardly surprising, given the stark reality of the economy as a whole, but such moves may hasten the arrival of more foreign carmakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have been talking to people for off and on for a long time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France said before Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153These are decisions in terms of the new manufacturers joining the sport that would take a long time to evaluate and actually enter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of course, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the preeminent place in North America for car manufacturers to build their business with an auto racing group. We remain that, and clearly there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some companies that &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact Chevrolet joined Chrysler and Ford in cutting support to racing programs in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top three series is hardly surprising, given the stark reality of the economy as a whole, but such moves may hasten the arrival of more foreign carmakers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have been talking to people for off and on for a long [&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-14610","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\/14610","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=14610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14611,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14610\/revisions\/14611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}