{"id":40176,"date":"2010-11-11T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T03:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40176"},"modified":"2010-11-11T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T03:35:56","slug":"pastrana-partners-with-waltrip-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40176","title":{"rendered":"Pastrana partners with Waltrip in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Travis Pastrana has signed a deal with Michael Waltrip Racing that could put him in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-tier Nationwide series as early as next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The action sports star has formed a team called Pastrana-Waltrip Racing, with Waltrip and Gary and Blake Bechtel. Pending NASCAR approval, he will run seven Nationwide races next season and 20 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been following NASCAR closely for years as a fan of the sport with competing in the sport a lifelong dream,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pastrana said in a statement released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I decided it was\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-pastrana-waltrip\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Pastrana has signed a deal with Michael Waltrip Racing that could put him in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second-tier Nationwide series as early as next year. The action sports star has formed a team called Pastrana-Waltrip Racing, with Waltrip and Gary and Blake Bechtel. Pending NASCAR approval, he will run seven Nationwide races next season and 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176","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=40176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40177,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions\/40177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}