{"id":14979,"date":"2009-06-19T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2009-06-19T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:30:07","slug":"automobile-nascar-with-gilliland-behind-the-wheel-trg-is-little-team-thats-thinking-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14979","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; With Gilliland behind the wheel, TRG is little team that&#8217;s thinking big"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Kevin Buckler planned to uncork 120 bottles of wine Thursday night to celebrate his fledgling Sprint Cup team&#8217;s return to its owner&#8217;s home turf in the Bay Area. That&#8217;s about as extravagant as life gets at TRG Motorsports, which views taking the green as richly as others might consider the checkered on NASCAR&#8217;s premier circuit.<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Since hiring driver David Gilliland after missing the Daytona 500, TRG&#8217;s No. 71 Chevrolet has qualified for 14 consecutive races, making it the most successful of several start-ups lured to Cup this season by a dearth of sponsorship that created open slots on the 43-car grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Buckler says he can compete on &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2009-06-18-trg-motorsports-gilliland_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Buckler planned to uncork 120 bottles of wine Thursday night to celebrate his fledgling Sprint Cup team&#8217;s return to its owner&#8217;s home turf in the Bay Area. That&#8217;s about as extravagant as life gets at TRG Motorsports, which views taking the green as richly as others might consider the checkered on NASCAR&#8217;s premier circuit. [&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-14979","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\/14979","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=14979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14980,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}