Sport adjusting: NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial challenges open up field to new, eager participants…<\/p>\n
… While all the dark financial news sloshed over NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s windshield this winter, Kevin Buckler grew fascinated with what he read between the lines.<\/p>\n
A veteran sports-car racer, he had harbored the thought of testing his California race operation on the Sprint Cup Series. And with the economy near chaos \u00e2\u20ac\u201d- with race teams vanishing, wall-to-wall layoffs, spooked sponsors \u00e2\u20ac\u201d- he went to his business partners with a proposal. With some of the established teams backing away, now was the chance for a small, no-frills operation to push its way into the big time…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sport adjusting: NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s financial challenges open up field to new, eager participants… … While all the dark financial news sloshed over NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s windshield this winter, Kevin Buckler grew fascinated with what he read between the lines. A veteran sports-car racer, he had harbored the thought of testing his California race operation on the Sprint Cup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}