{"id":6357,"date":"2009-03-27T21:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2009-03-27T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T04:54:16","slug":"automobile-nascar-rain-puts-gordon-on-cup-pole-at-martinsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6357","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Rain puts Gordon on Cup pole at Martinsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeff Gordon will start from the pole position in Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway after steady rain washed out qualifying Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Being the points leader also earned Gordon the prime stall on the cramped pit road of NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tricky, 0.526-mile oval. He will be seeking his eighth victory at Martinsville, tops among active drivers, and his first in 47 races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The qualifying rainout, he figures, only helps his chances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think because of the pit road situation here, this is probably the most important place to start on the pole because you get that No. 1 pit stall,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gordon, who has &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascarqualifying&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>Jeff Gordon will start from the pole position in Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway after steady rain washed out qualifying Friday. Being the points leader also earned Gordon the prime stall on the cramped pit road of NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tricky, 0.526-mile oval. He will be seeking his eighth victory at Martinsville, tops among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6357","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\/6357","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=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}