{"id":34170,"date":"2010-07-17T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=34170"},"modified":"2010-07-17T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T04:45:11","slug":"video-nascar-pushing-for-diverse-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=34170","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; NASCAR Pushing For Diverse Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When you think of a NASCAR driver, you may not picture a young woman zipping around a racetrack going nearly 200 miles an hour in a 34-hundred pound stock car.\u00c2\u00a0 Times have changed, and so have the faces of\u00c2\u00a0 NASCAR competitors, with the help of The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing &#8220;Drive for Diversity&#8221; program.\u00c2\u00a0 Since 2004, the program has been helping women and minority drivers fulfill their need for speed by putting them behind the wheels of fast moving stock cars with top notch coaching and sponsorship opportunities they may not have had in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 NASCAR is the 2nd biggest sport in the country behind the NFL, and has some of the most loyal fans. Any fan would tell you that going to a race in person brings a 5 sense experience like no other.\u00c2\u00a0The brightly colored cars move so fast, they blur when they pass you\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/07\/17\/d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4284808&amp;w=498&amp;h=336\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;offerid=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><IMG alt=\"Logo_468x60\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nautica.com\/graphics\/promo\/NAU\/naut_logo_468x60.jpg\"><\/a><IMG border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=SZ7wAI9J8G0&#038;bids=171598.10000008&#038;type=4&#038;subid=0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of a NASCAR driver, you may not picture a young woman zipping around a racetrack going nearly 200 miles an hour in a 34-hundred pound stock car.\u00c2\u00a0 Times have changed, and so have the faces of\u00c2\u00a0 NASCAR competitors, with the help of The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing &#8220;Drive for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34170","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=34170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34177,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34170\/revisions\/34177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}