{"id":15292,"date":"2009-06-30T18:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T01:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15292"},"modified":"2009-07-03T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T22:33:08","slug":"automobile-f1-nascar-montoya-is-getting-the-handle-on-stock-car-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15292","title":{"rendered":"Automobile F1 Nascar &#8211; Montoya is getting the handle on stock car racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0To Juan Pablo Montoya, who has piloted the jewels of automobiles, the old-school Sprint Cup racecar is about as sporty as an 18-wheeler trying to pick its way around Storrow Drive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As a car to drive, from the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve driven, it handles horrible. The old car did as well,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 said Montoya of the Car of Tomorrow and the previous Cup vehicle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"articlePluckHidden\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Before his migration to NASCAR, Montoya commanded the cockpit of the multimillion-dollar BMW Williams rocket ship. When Montoya stepped on the gas, the lightweight Formula One machine sprinted with a fury. When he stomped on the brakes, the car stopped in an instant. When he turned the wheel, the car jerked to the side while its tires kept its clutches on the track.<\/p>\n<p>Just about none of that stuff applies in NASCAR.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"articlePluckHidden\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The car handles like &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/other_sports\/autoracing\/articles\/2009\/06\/27\/montoya_getting_used_to_nascar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0To Juan Pablo Montoya, who has piloted the jewels of automobiles, the old-school Sprint Cup racecar is about as sporty as an 18-wheeler trying to pick its way around Storrow Drive. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As a car to drive, from the things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve driven, it handles horrible. The old car did as well,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 said Montoya of the Car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292","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=15292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15536,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}