{"id":7373,"date":"2009-04-03T19:35:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2009-04-03T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T02:41:45","slug":"automobile-nascar-reutimann-edges-gordon-kenseth-for-texas-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7373","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Reutimann edges Gordon, Kenseth for Texas pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8212; David Reutimann recently dubbed himself &#8220;The Franchise&#8221; at Michael Waltrip Racing, a tongue-in-cheek reference to his growing confidence and improving performance in NASCAR&#8217;s Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Friday at Texas Motor Speedway, Reutimann backed up the franchise tag with a pole-winning performance at the 1.5-mile high-speed intermediate track, turning a lap in 28.344 seconds (190.517 mph) to edge Cup points leader Jeff Gordon (190.194 mph) for the top starting spot in Sunday&#8217;s Samsung 500&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/04\/03\/preview.dreutimann.texas.pole\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/headlines\/cup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3700940?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH, Texas &#8212; David Reutimann recently dubbed himself &#8220;The Franchise&#8221; at Michael Waltrip Racing, a tongue-in-cheek reference to his growing confidence and improving performance in NASCAR&#8217;s Cup Series. On Friday at Texas Motor Speedway, Reutimann backed up the franchise tag with a pole-winning performance at the 1.5-mile high-speed intermediate track, turning a lap in [&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-7373","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\/7373","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=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}