{"id":2432,"date":"2009-03-04T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:24:30","slug":"waltrip-upbeat-after-his-teams-good-start-in-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Waltrip upbeat after his team&#8217;s good start in &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A late-race crash ruined his day but three races into the NASCAR Sprint Cup season Michael Waltrip is still in the top 12 in points and teammate David Reutimann is fifth. For an organization that struggled to make races two years ago, it&#8217;s quite a turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think our team has grown a tremendous amount in the last few months,&#8221; Waltrip said, noting the addition of Steve Hallam, a former engineer and manager in Formula One, as director of competition last fall&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2009\/03\/waltrip-upbeat-after-his-teams-good-start-09\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A late-race crash ruined his day but three races into the NASCAR Sprint Cup season Michael Waltrip is still in the top 12 in points and teammate David Reutimann is fifth. For an organization that struggled to make races two years ago, it&#8217;s quite a turnaround. &#8220;I think our team has grown a tremendous amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","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\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}