{"id":72186,"date":"2012-11-16T20:33:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72186"},"modified":"2012-11-16T20:33:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T03:33:13","slug":"nascar-roger-penske-on-brink-of-first-sprint-cup-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72186","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Roger Penske on brink of first Sprint Cup title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Roger Penske stands one race away from achieving his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brad Keselowski needs to finish 15th or better in Sunday&#8217;s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to bring &#8220;The Captain&#8221; to NASCAR&#8217;s Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Penske is proud of what Keselowski has done since joining his team and the potential for Sunday&#8217;s historic celebration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I think as I sum it up, he&#8217;s earned the respect of the garage area, of the drivers, the crews, the officials, and certainly he&#8217;s gained a lot of fans,&#8221; said Penske of the Miller Lite Dodge driver. &#8220;And for me basically it&#8217;s been\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nascar\/blog\/eye-on-nascar\/21014276\/roger-penske-on-brink-of-first-sprint-cup-title\" 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>Roger Penske stands one race away from achieving his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. Brad Keselowski needs to finish 15th or better in Sunday&#8217;s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway to bring &#8220;The Captain&#8221; to NASCAR&#8217;s Holy Land. Penske is proud of what Keselowski has done since joining his team and the potential [&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-72186","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\/72186","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=72186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72187,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72186\/revisions\/72187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}