{"id":18803,"date":"2009-08-17T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18803"},"modified":"2009-11-19T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T04:43:38","slug":"automobile-nascar-gustafsons-fuel-gamble-fails-martin-falls-to-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=18803","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Gustafson&#8217;s fuel gamble fails, Martin falls to bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BROOKLYN, Mich. &#8212; Neither Van Gogh nor Pavarotti, with their exquisite talents would&#8217;ve had a prayer of displaying the facial pain or the agony in Hendrick Motorsports crew chief Alan Gustafson&#8217;s voice as Sunday&#8217;s sun began to set on Michigan International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gustafson&#8217;s driver, Mark Martin, and their team have won a league-leading four races &#8212; including a Michigan fuel mileage special in June &#8212; but Martin sits only 12 points away from falling out of the 12-man field for the Chase after his car apparently ran out of fuel on the last lap and Brian Vickers, one of three drivers who still has a shot to race his way into the Chase, won the Carfax 400.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In June, Martin went from third to first on the final lap when\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/08\/16\/post.race.chase.recap.michigan.mmartin\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/headlines\/cup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN, Mich. &#8212; Neither Van Gogh nor Pavarotti, with their exquisite talents would&#8217;ve had a prayer of displaying the facial pain or the agony in Hendrick Motorsports crew chief Alan Gustafson&#8217;s voice as Sunday&#8217;s sun began to set on Michigan International Speedway. Gustafson&#8217;s driver, Mark Martin, and their team have won a league-leading four races [&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-18803","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\/18803","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=18803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23708,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18803\/revisions\/23708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}