{"id":22844,"date":"2009-11-08T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22844"},"modified":"2009-11-08T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:18:32","slug":"automobile-nascar-johnsons-crash-tightens-chase-race-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22844","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Johnson&#8217;s crash tightens Chase race in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s seemingly inevitable march toward his fourth consecutive Sprint Cup title was thrust into doubt on the third lap Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contact with Sam Hornish Jr. sent Johnson into the wall on the backstretch, and the No. 48 car sustained major damage that required a comprehensive rebuild in the garage area. Johnson started the race with a 184-point advantage on the field with only three events remaining in the season, with a chance to clinch the championship next weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. The wreck changed all that, cutting a substantial chunk out of his lead in the immediate aftermath of the accident&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/11\/08\/jjohnson.crashes.texas\/index.html?eref=%252Fnews%252Fheadlines%252Fcup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmie Johnson&#8217;s seemingly inevitable march toward his fourth consecutive Sprint Cup title was thrust into doubt on the third lap Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway. Contact with Sam Hornish Jr. sent Johnson into the wall on the backstretch, and the No. 48 car sustained major damage that required a comprehensive rebuild in the garage area. [&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-22844","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\/22844","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=22844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22852,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22844\/revisions\/22852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}