{"id":694,"date":"2009-02-06T04:22:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:02:54","slug":"denny-hamlin-eager-to-make-2009-a-championship-season-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Denny Hamlin eager to make 2009 a championship season in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin was the new kid at Joe Gibbs Racing &#8211; an unknown in the shadow of defending NASCAR champion and teammate Tony Stewart &#8211; when he rolled into Daytona International Speedway for his 2006 rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>He needed just two days to change that. With a push from good buddy Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hamlin stole the victory in the non-points Budweiser Shootout to rocket into NASCAR stardom.<\/p>\n<p>He now considers that victory one of the greatest accomplishments of his short career.<\/p>\n<p>Only problem? In Hamlin&#8217;s mind, he&#8217;s done very little to back up that breakthrough win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the thing &#8211; when you have so much early success, it can be hard to fall off that mountain,&#8221; Hamlin said. &#8220;If we would have come in during my rookie year &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/canadianpress\/article\/ALeqM5jFwPx9LRPP2cLOAcPs8_eeepEFSw\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin was the new kid at Joe Gibbs Racing &#8211; an unknown in the shadow of defending NASCAR champion and teammate Tony Stewart &#8211; when he rolled into Daytona International Speedway for his 2006 rookie season. He needed just two days to change that. With a push from good buddy Dale Earnhardt Jr., Hamlin [&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-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}