{"id":47556,"date":"2011-04-07T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47556"},"modified":"2011-04-07T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:00:25","slug":"nascar-mechanical-savvy-of-a-driver-helpful-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47556","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Mechanical savvy of a driver helpful on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8212; Tom Busch had a rule his boys had to abide by &#8212; if they wanted to race cars, they had to work on them first. No one took to this more than his youngest son, Kyle, who can recall tinkering with his dad&#8217;s late model, and helping to build a vehicle for older brother, Kurt. The speed captivated him, for certain, but so did the wrench-turning, dirty-fingernails work of grip and handling and camber, all those elements that helped the driver make the car go fast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That affinity for the mechanical side of racing is still there for the Sprint Cup points leader, who knows his way around a setup sheet\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/110407\/kybusch-mechanical-savvy-drivers\/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>FORT WORTH, Texas &#8212; Tom Busch had a rule his boys had to abide by &#8212; if they wanted to race cars, they had to work on them first. No one took to this more than his youngest son, Kyle, who can recall tinkering with his dad&#8217;s late model, and helping to build a vehicle [&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-47556","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\/47556","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=47556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47557,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47556\/revisions\/47557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}