{"id":17855,"date":"2009-08-04T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T02:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:55:01","slug":"automobile-nascar-struggling-roush-teams-rue-hendrick-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17855","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Struggling Roush teams rue Hendrick advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roush Fenway Racing drivers realize they&#8217;ve fallen behind the competition, particularly Hendrick Motorsports. But can they get up in time to make a serious run at the championship?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A year ago, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle combined for 11 Ford victories. However, since Matt Kenseth started off the 2009 season with back-to-back wins at Daytona and Fontana, the blue oval has looked more like a zero on the manufacturer scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hendrick-built Chevrolets have won the past three races, including Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s victory at the Brickyard last weekend, and Friday&#8217;s rain-shortened practice at Pocono Raceway looked like more of the same, as all four Hendrick teammates and the satellite Stewart-Haas team taking up six of the top seven places on the lap charts&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-preview.cup.roush.hendrick.pocono-20090731&amp;prov=nascar_com&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roush Fenway Racing drivers realize they&#8217;ve fallen behind the competition, particularly Hendrick Motorsports. But can they get up in time to make a serious run at the championship? A year ago, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle combined for 11 Ford victories. However, since Matt Kenseth started off the 2009 season with back-to-back wins at Daytona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17855","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\/17855","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=17855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46519,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17855\/revisions\/46519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}