{"id":72292,"date":"2012-11-18T18:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72292"},"modified":"2012-11-18T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:09:16","slug":"nascar-brad-keselowski-clinches-first-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72292","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Brad Keselowski clinches first championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The fuel strategy that was supposed to carry Jimmie Johnson to a sixth championship instead made a winner of his teammate, Jeff Gordon, who triumphed in Sunday&#8217;s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway as Brad Keselowski locked up the Sprint Cup title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gordon crossed the finish line 1.028 seconds ahead of Clint Bowyer, his nemesis from a week ago at Phoenix, as Johnson&#8217;s No. 48 Chevrolet sat forlorn in the garage, Johnson&#8217;s title hopes the victim of a pit road mistake and a rare part failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ryan Newman ran third, followed by Kyle Busch and Greg Biffle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keselowski finished\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/121118\/bkeselowski-wins-first-chase-title\/index.html?eref=%2Fnews%2Fheadlines%2Fcup&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fnews_cup+%28RSS%3A+NEXTEL+Cup+Series%29\" 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>The fuel strategy that was supposed to carry Jimmie Johnson to a sixth championship instead made a winner of his teammate, Jeff Gordon, who triumphed in Sunday&#8217;s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway as Brad Keselowski locked up the Sprint Cup title. Gordon crossed the finish line 1.028 seconds ahead of Clint Bowyer, his nemesis [&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-72292","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\/72292","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=72292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72293,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72292\/revisions\/72293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}