{"id":490,"date":"2009-02-05T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-02-24T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T05:07:05","slug":"nascar-denies-earnhardt-ganassi-racings-bid-to-transfer-points-to-keselowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR denies Earnhardt Ganassi Racing&#8217;s bid to transfer points to Keselowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-491\" title=\"ganassi-car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/ganassi-car-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"ganassi-car\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australian driver Marcos Ambrose has a guaranteed starting spot in NASCAR&#8217;s Daytona 500 on Feb. 15, but rookie Brad Keselowski must qualify or race his way into the Sprint Cup opener at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Until Thursday, it appeared that Keselowski had an assured spot in the Daytona 500 and that Ambrose would be among those having to get in the field based on qualifying this Sunday or in the 150-mile heat races on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The change came when NASCAR officials refused to allow Ganassi Sabates Racing to transfer its 2008-season owner points to Phoenix Racing for Keselowski&#8217;s use in the first five races&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20090205\/FREE\/902059981\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian driver Marcos Ambrose has a guaranteed starting spot in NASCAR&#8217;s Daytona 500 on Feb. 15, but rookie Brad Keselowski must qualify or race his way into the Sprint Cup opener at Daytona International Speedway. Until Thursday, it appeared that Keselowski had an assured spot in the Daytona 500 and that Ambrose would be among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","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\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}