{"id":50060,"date":"2011-06-02T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T03:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50060"},"modified":"2011-06-02T20:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T03:07:43","slug":"nascar-darrell-waltrip-says-stars-are-key-for-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50060","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Darrell Waltrip says stars are key for NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For too long, says Fox&#8217;s Darrell Waltrip, NASCAR and its TV carriers stressed machine over man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Everything was about the car,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We forget there&#8217;s a driver in the car and got lost in the technology. That turned off a lot of people and this year our emphasis is on drivers. We were struggling among the 18-34 year-old male casual fans, that&#8217;s who we&#8217;re going after.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/columnist\/hiestand-tv\/2011-06-02-nascar-waltrip-mchale-nba-tennis-evert-nhl-maguire_N.htm\" 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>For too long, says Fox&#8217;s Darrell Waltrip, NASCAR and its TV carriers stressed machine over man. &#8220;Everything was about the car,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We forget there&#8217;s a driver in the car and got lost in the technology. That turned off a lot of people and this year our emphasis is on drivers. We were struggling [&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-50060","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\/50060","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=50060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50061,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50060\/revisions\/50061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}