{"id":355,"date":"2009-02-04T05:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T01:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2011-04-04T20:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T03:54:53","slug":"series-prize-money-news-2009-02-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Road Racing &#8211; Series prize money news 2009-02-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2009 Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda will feature a $1 million prize to the series champion as part of $3 million in prize money, series officials announced today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The $1 million champion&#8217;s prize is the most lucrative championship payout in a North American open-wheel driver development series. The driver who finishes second in the 2009 Atlantic Championship will receive $500,000, with the remaining $1.5 million to be paid out in per-event race purses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;This is a significant prize package that should attract top drivers from all over the world to the Atlantic Championship this season,&#8221; said Atlantic Championship President Ben Johnston. &#8220;The $1 million champion&#8217;s prize&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/news\/article.asp?ID=318038&amp;FS=\" target=\"_blank\">More info\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda will feature a $1 million prize to the series champion as part of $3 million in prize money, series officials announced today. The $1 million champion&#8217;s prize is the most lucrative championship payout in a North American open-wheel driver development series. The driver who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,20,21,22,24,25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-drifting","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar","category-rally-car","category-sports-car","category-sprints-midgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47404,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/47404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}