{"id":3774,"date":"2009-03-15T17:44:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T01:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2009-03-15T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T01:44:25","slug":"nascar-wide-distribution-of-past-champions-provisional-is-keeping-nascar-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3774","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Wide Distribution of Past Champions&#8217; Provisional Is Keeping NASCAR Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we watch qualifying prior to a race and see the top 43 fastest drivers make it based on time. Most of the time, making the actual race is only a formality for these most skilled, likely veteran drivers on the best teams and in the best equipment.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, as seen most recently as early 2008, but especially 2007, sometimes a driver has to rely on his past success just to get him into the show that was once so easy.<\/p>\n<p>What I am referring to is the past champions provisional\u00c2\u00a0that allows a driver &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/139424-wide-distribution-of-past-champions-provision-is-keeping-nascar-interesting\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we watch qualifying prior to a race and see the top 43 fastest drivers make it based on time. Most of the time, making the actual race is only a formality for these most skilled, likely veteran drivers on the best teams and in the best equipment. But sometimes, as seen most recently [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","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\/3774","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=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}