{"id":14678,"date":"2009-06-16T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14678"},"modified":"2009-06-16T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:18:17","slug":"automobile-nascar-sports-car-nascars-kyle-busch-scott-speed-to-try-grand-am-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14678","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR Sports Car &#8211; NASCAR&#8217;s Kyle Busch, Scott Speed to try Grand-Am racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Kyle Busch and Scott Speed plan to test their skills driving exotic Daytona Prototype sports cars in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The duo will split driving duties July 4 in the Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona International Speedway. They&#8217;ll be racing a second Lexus Riley sports car fielded by Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, the team whose primary drivers, Memo Rojas and Scott Pruett of Auburn, Calif., are the series&#8217; defending champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rojas and Pruett also won their first race of this seasonlast weekend, at Watkins Glen, N.Y., to gain a share of this year&#8217;s point lead in the Grand-Am series, which was acquired by NASCAR last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Busch, 24, has&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2009\/06\/nascars-kyle-busch-scott-speed-to-try-grandam-racing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Kyle Busch and Scott Speed plan to test their skills driving exotic Daytona Prototype sports cars in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. The duo will split driving duties July 4 in the Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona International Speedway. They&#8217;ll be racing a second Lexus Riley sports car fielded [&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-14678","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\/14678","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=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14701,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions\/14701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}