{"id":64337,"date":"2012-05-14T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64337"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:47:12","slug":"newman-busch-feud-just-what-nascar-needs-to-stir-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64337","title":{"rendered":"Newman-Busch feud just what NASCAR needs to stir popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">DARLINGTON, S.C. &#8212; In a year when frustrated fans have begged for more cautions to tighten the field and add drama to races, Saturday night&#8217;s race at Darlington Raceway saved NASCAR&#8217;s season. The track once dismissed as past its prime delivered a tension-filled finish and a pit-road confrontation that had Ryan Newman questioning Kurt Busch&#8217;s &#8220;chemical imbalance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now fans have something to talk about instead of what&#8217;s wrong with NASCAR. Let the discussions begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The question is if this week&#8217;s All-Star Race can follow the buzz Darlington created. Expectations are\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/racing\/news\/20120513\/ryan-newman-kurt-busch\/index.html\" 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>DARLINGTON, S.C. &#8212; In a year when frustrated fans have begged for more cautions to tighten the field and add drama to races, Saturday night&#8217;s race at Darlington Raceway saved NASCAR&#8217;s season. The track once dismissed as past its prime delivered a tension-filled finish and a pit-road confrontation that had Ryan Newman questioning Kurt Busch&#8217;s [&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-64337","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\/64337","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=64337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64338,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64337\/revisions\/64338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}