{"id":731,"date":"2009-02-06T05:08:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2009-08-20T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:02:57","slug":"preseason-test-ban-at-daytona-hurts-also-rans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Preseason Test ban at Daytona hurts also-rans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To Jimmie Johnson, the elimination of preseason testing at Daytona International Speedway means the 2009 season should begin much the same way the &#8217;08 season ended. Considering last season concluded with his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, that&#8217;s fine with Johnson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I think the start of the season, you&#8217;ll see the usual suspects up front,&#8221; said Johnson, whose quest for four in a row begins today with the opening of practice for the Feb. 15 Daytona 500. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be more difficult for teams to close that gap without being able to go test.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/article\/20090206\/SPORTS01\/902060366\/1052\/SPORTS01\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Jimmie Johnson, the elimination of preseason testing at Daytona International Speedway means the 2009 season should begin much the same way the &#8217;08 season ended. Considering last season concluded with his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, that&#8217;s fine with Johnson. &#8220;I think the start of the season, you&#8217;ll see the usual suspects up [&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-731","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\/731","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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19325,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/19325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}