{"id":20619,"date":"2009-09-20T20:06:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T03:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2009-09-20T20:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T03:11:03","slug":"automobile-nascar-martin-wins-chase-opener-extends-lead-in-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20619","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Martin wins Chase opener, extends lead in standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Top seeding in the Chase for the Sprint Cup must agree with Mark Martin and, on Sunday, he took the first step toward the championship that has eluded him for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet held off a ferocious charge by Juan Montoya on a restart with three laps left in the Sylvania 300 and won the race under caution when NASCAR threw the yellow flag as the lead pack streaked through Turn 4 on the final lap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the victory, his first in 26 starts at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Martin &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=nascar_com-post.race.mmartin.wins.new.hampshire-20090920&amp;prov=nascar_com&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seeding in the Chase for the Sprint Cup must agree with Mark Martin and, on Sunday, he took the first step toward the championship that has eluded him for more than 20 years. The driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet held off a ferocious charge by Juan Montoya on a restart with three laps [&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-20619","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\/20619","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=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20626,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}