{"id":14884,"date":"2009-06-18T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14884"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:57:00","slug":"automobile-nascar-smack-looking-for-a-road-ringer-this-week-in-sonoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14884","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Smack: Looking for a road ringer this week in Sonoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. It&#8217;s road course time again, with the Sprint Cup tour heading to Sonoma. If you&#8217;re the owner of a middling team, do you hire a road course ringer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David Caraviello: Absolutely. Why not? Fans pay to see the stars of NASCAR, and if you&#8217;re running in 30th place, odds are, you&#8217;re not a star. So put someone in the seat who can give you and your team a more realistic chance of winning. All for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dave Rodman: That&#8217;s a 50-50 question, and it depends on commitment. And of course, this top 35 situation now plays into it as well. If you&#8217;re committed and you&#8217;re trying to develop an all-around driver, you stick with him. But if the yaw of the top 35 looms, you ring it up, probably.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Duane Cross: No question\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou owe it to the sponsor&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-smack-sprintcup-20090618&amp;prov=nascar_com&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. It&#8217;s road course time again, with the Sprint Cup tour heading to Sonoma. If you&#8217;re the owner of a middling team, do you hire a road course ringer? David Caraviello: Absolutely. Why not? Fans pay to see the stars of NASCAR, and if you&#8217;re running in 30th place, odds are, you&#8217;re not a star. [&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-14884","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\/14884","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=14884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14906,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14884\/revisions\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}