{"id":7460,"date":"2009-04-04T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2009-04-04T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:48:02","slug":"automobile-nascar-as-texas-goes-so-goes-the-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7460","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; As Texas goes, so goes the Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0you want to know who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to make this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chase for the Sprint Cup, look no further than the results of Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Samsung 500. Those finishing in the top 12 have about a 70 percent chance of making the Chase, or at least that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what history tells us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since the Chase format was introduced in 2004, an average of seven out of 10 drivers who wound up making the playoffs finished in the top 10 at Texas Motor Speedway. The number jumps to nine of 12 since NASCAR expanded the field in 2007 to include a dozen drivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting statistic, but why is Texas such a good barometer of things to come? &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=jh-texaspreview040409&amp;prov=yhoo&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details and Video<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0you want to know who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to make this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chase for the Sprint Cup, look no further than the results of Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Samsung 500. Those finishing in the top 12 have about a 70 percent chance of making the Chase, or at least that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what history tells us. Since the Chase format was introduced [&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-7460","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\/7460","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=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}