{"id":6141,"date":"2009-03-26T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T21:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2009-03-26T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T22:13:23","slug":"automobile-nascar-trg-motorsports-taking-small-steps-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR Sports Car &#8211; TRG Motorsports taking small steps in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With very little sponsorship and a skeleton crew, David Gilliland and TRG Motorsports aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to contend for a championship in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elite Sprint Cup Series anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But they head to Martinsville Speedway this weekend locked inside the top 35 in points, a huge victory for a small team fighting against the economic slowdown in NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been nerve-racking,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gilliland. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just had to take it week by week and fight hard to get to this point. From here, we only hope it gets a little easier.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not likely for TRG, an acronym for The Racers Group. Founded by Kevin Buckler, a former sports car driver with an extensive and successful background in that series, the team is fighting an uphill battle in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elite division. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re racing against multi-car teams with millions of dollars in sponsorship and fully staffed engineering departments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But fresh off a 1-2 finish in its class at the Rolex 24 sports car race (ninth and 10th overall), TRG put together a Sprint Cup Series team in under two weeks and went to NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s season-opening Daytona 500 intent on proving to the industry that &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-theunderdogs&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/placeholder-3691232?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With very little sponsorship and a skeleton crew, David Gilliland and TRG Motorsports aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to contend for a championship in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elite Sprint Cup Series anytime soon. But they head to Martinsville Speedway this weekend locked inside the top 35 in points, a huge victory for a small team fighting against the economic slowdown [&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-6141","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\/6141","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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}