{"id":68305,"date":"2012-08-07T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68305"},"modified":"2012-08-07T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:36:18","slug":"dodge-to-quit-nascar-at-end-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68305","title":{"rendered":"Dodge to quit NASCAR at end of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-68306\" title=\"dodge-nascar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/08\/dodge-nascar-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"dodge-nascar\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dodge-nascar-600x337.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dodge-nascar-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dodge-nascar.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Chrysler&#8217;s head of motorsports, Ralph Gilles, announced today that the automaker will end its Dodge-branded NASCAR racing program at the end of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the wake of losing its top team, Penske Racing, to Ford for the 2013 season, Gilles said the company was unable to find a partner that would allow it to &#8220;go forward with a structure that met our standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The decision to\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2012\/08\/07\/source-says-dodge-to-ditch-nascar\/?intcmp=features\" 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>Chrysler&#8217;s head of motorsports, Ralph Gilles, announced today that the automaker will end its Dodge-branded NASCAR racing program at the end of the 2012 season. In the wake of losing its top team, Penske Racing, to Ford for the 2013 season, Gilles said the company was unable to find a partner that would allow it [&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-68305","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\/68305","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=68305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68307,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305\/revisions\/68307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}