{"id":5931,"date":"2009-03-25T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T00:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2009-03-25T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T00:46:19","slug":"automobile-nascar-hendrick-committed-to-earnhardt-jr-eury-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5931","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Hendrick committed to Earnhardt Jr., Eury Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Team owner Rick Hendrick won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t split Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his embattled crew chief despite their slow start to the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tony Eury Jr. has always been under intense scrutiny as crew chief for NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most popular driver, but it has hit a new level this year as the No. 88 team has just one top-10 finish through five races. Earnhardt heads to Martinsville Speedway this weekend ranked 19th in the standings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Both Junior and Tony have told me that if they thought they needed to be split, that they understood,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hendrick said Wednesday in a national teleconference. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my call, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not ready to make that call. Not even close. I am convinced that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the right combination, and I think &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-hendrick-earnhardt&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team owner Rick Hendrick won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t split Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his embattled crew chief despite their slow start to the season. Tony Eury Jr. has always been under intense scrutiny as crew chief for NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most popular driver, but it has hit a new level this year as the No. 88 team has just one [&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-5931","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\/5931","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=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5933,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}