{"id":43632,"date":"2011-01-27T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43632"},"modified":"2011-01-27T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:35:51","slug":"nascar-recent-slump-has-gordons-competitive-fire-raging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43632","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Recent slump has Gordon&#8217;s competitive fire raging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Four-time Cup champion is winless since &#8217;09 and looking for right combination<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">CONCORD, N.C. &#8212; After averaging nearly six wins a season during the first 15 years of his Cup career, Jeff Gordon has won just once since 2008. How could a driver who seemed a lock for 100 victories &#8212; and perhaps even eclipsing the championship totals of Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt &#8212; not that long ago suddenly lose the ability to close the deal with the race on the line?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">During the NASCAR media tour&#8217;s stop at Hendrick Motorsports on Wednesday, Gordon said\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/110127\/jgordon-ready-win-again\/index.html?eref=%252Fnews%252Fheadlines%252Fcup&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+rss%252Fnews_cup+%2528RSS%253A+NEXTEL+Cup+Series%2529\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Four-time Cup champion is winless since &#8217;09 and looking for right combination CONCORD, N.C. &#8212; After averaging nearly six wins a season during the first 15 years of his Cup career, Jeff Gordon has won just once since 2008. How could a driver who seemed a lock for 100 victories &#8212; and perhaps even eclipsing [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43632","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\/43632","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=43632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43634,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions\/43634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}