{"id":15112,"date":"2009-06-25T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T05:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15112"},"modified":"2009-06-26T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:17:58","slug":"automobile-nascar-kahne-tops-stewart-at-sonoma-finds-first-road-course-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15112","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Kahne tops Stewart at Sonoma, finds first road-course win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SONOMA, Calif. (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Richard Petty Motorsports has made news this season for all the wrong reasons. Caught in the financial crunch of Chrysler&#8217;s bankruptcy, the team had a recent round of layoffs and companywide salary reductions.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Star driver Kasey Kahne has been openly unhappy with RPM&#8217;s slow development of an improved Dodge motor, and the organization can&#8217;t shake whispers about its long-term stability.<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" style=\"text-align: left;\">A win can cure most of those ills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kahne returned team co-owner Richard Petty to Victory Lane for the first time in over a decade with a much-needed win \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on a road course, of all places \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at Infineon Raceway on Sunday&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2009-06-21-sonoma_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/accounts\/default1\/banners\/dirtbagwr-468x60.jpg\" alt=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" title=\"DirtBag Clothing - Authenitc Rock and Roll Clothing\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/dirtbagclothing.com\/affiliate\/scripts\/imp.php?a_aid=Hawaii1219&amp;a_bid=0ef7f891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SONOMA, Calif. (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Richard Petty Motorsports has made news this season for all the wrong reasons. Caught in the financial crunch of Chrysler&#8217;s bankruptcy, the team had a recent round of layoffs and companywide salary reductions. Star driver Kasey Kahne has been openly unhappy with RPM&#8217;s slow development of an improved Dodge motor, and [&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-15112","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\/15112","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=15112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15115,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112\/revisions\/15115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}