{"id":6656,"date":"2009-03-30T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T22:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2009-03-30T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T02:28:27","slug":"automobile-nascar-in-the-pits-stewart-off-to-strong-start-as-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=6656","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; In The Pits: Stewart off to strong start as owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 284 races spanning seven years and 12 different drivers, Haas CNC Racing never sniffed success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Its equipment was below par, its sponsorship was inadequate and its drivers started each race knowing they had no chance to win. Johnny Sauter came closest, fifth at Richmond in 2007. So a top-10 finish once in a while was a more realistic goal for the fledgling race team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then along came Tony Stewart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although few had high expectations for Stewart in his first season as majority owner at &#8230; &#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-inthepits&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/placeholder-3701064?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 284 races spanning seven years and 12 different drivers, Haas CNC Racing never sniffed success. Its equipment was below par, its sponsorship was inadequate and its drivers started each race knowing they had no chance to win. Johnny Sauter came closest, fifth at Richmond in 2007. So a top-10 finish once in a while [&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-6656","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\/6656","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=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}