{"id":5117,"date":"2009-03-19T17:43:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2009-03-19T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:58:12","slug":"automobile-nascar-it%e2%80%99s-good-it%e2%80%99s-bad-%e2%80%a6-it%e2%80%99s-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5117","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few things during my NASCAR driving career that could match the thrill of running a lap (alone!) at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is without a doubt as intense and as extreme as anything you will do in a race car. And it is fun.<br \/>\nOn the flip side, the race itself has the potential of being the least fun you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had in a race car.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate this disparity, you have to understand what it takes to run a lap around the half-mile bullring.<\/p>\n<p>A fast lap around Bristol \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 16 seconds \u00e2\u20ac\u201c requires a balance of precision and&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=rc-bristol031909&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are very few things during my NASCAR driving career that could match the thrill of running a lap (alone!) at Bristol Motor Speedway. It is without a doubt as intense and as extreme as anything you will do in a race car. And it is fun. On the flip side, the race itself has [&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-5117","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\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}