{"id":20233,"date":"2009-09-08T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20233"},"modified":"2009-09-08T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:54:48","slug":"automobile-drag-racing-was-the-fix-in-for-funny-car-at-indy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20233","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Drag Racing &#8211; Was the fix in for Funny Car at Indy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Robert Hight had one driver to beat to make the Countdown: his boss, John Force<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Robert Hight faced a tall order at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, the last race of the NHRA regular season, to rally from 12th in points into the top 10 and the Countdown to 1. He needed to win a lot of rounds and have certain competitors lose at the right times to make the Funny Car playoff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Was one of those competitors his boss &#8212; 14-time champion and drag racing icon John Force?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hight and Force met &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/article\/20090907\/SPORTS\/909079985\/1004\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hight had one driver to beat to make the Countdown: his boss, John Force Robert Hight faced a tall order at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, the last race of the NHRA regular season, to rally from 12th in points into the top 10 and the Countdown to 1. He needed to win a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233","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=20233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20234,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions\/20234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}