{"id":72047,"date":"2012-11-12T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72047"},"modified":"2012-11-12T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T03:49:54","slug":"drag-racing-antron-brown-is-first-african-american-to-win-a-major-us-auto-racing-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72047","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing &#8211; Antron Brown is first African-American to win a major U.S. auto racing title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brown and Beckman claim NHRA championships in Pomona finale<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Antron Brown became the first African-American to win a major U.S. auto racing title Sunday at the Auto Club NHRA Finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brown, who lost in the opening round of eliminations, had to wait until the final round before he could grab the championship trophy, when Tony Schumacher lost in a photo finish to Brandon Bernstein.\u00c2\u00a0 Brown entered Sunday&#8217;s eliminations 67 points ahead of Tony Schumacher and for a while it appeared that\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/brown-and-beckman-claim-nhra-championships-in-pomona-finale\/article\/267842\/\" 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>Brown and Beckman claim NHRA championships in Pomona finale Antron Brown became the first African-American to win a major U.S. auto racing title Sunday at the Auto Club NHRA Finals. Brown, who lost in the opening round of eliminations, had to wait until the final round before he could grab the championship trophy, when Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72047","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=72047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72049,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72047\/revisions\/72049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}