{"id":74701,"date":"2013-01-24T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=74701"},"modified":"2013-01-24T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T04:31:19","slug":"nascar-pushes-to-get-sports-car-racing-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=74701","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR pushes to get sports-car racing back on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The IndyCar series broke apart into two groups in 1996 and continued the rivalry for 13 years before unifying in 2008. While they finally resolved their issues of the costs of technology and the domination of a small group of powerful car owners, the series has yet to fully recover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ratings and attendance remain well below its heyday of 40 years ago when it reigned as the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s No. 1 brand of motorsports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sports-car racing made a similar split in 1999. And like IndyCars, it\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/onlineathens.com\/sports\/2013-01-23\/nascar-pushes-get-sports-car-racing-back-track\" 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>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The IndyCar series broke apart into two groups in 1996 and continued the rivalry for 13 years before unifying in 2008. While they finally resolved their issues of the costs of technology and the domination of a small group of powerful car owners, the series has yet to fully recover. Ratings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74701","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=74701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74702,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74701\/revisions\/74702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}