{"id":75721,"date":"2013-02-21T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75721"},"modified":"2013-02-21T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:43:39","slug":"nascar-balancing-the-scales-on-the-driver-weight-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75721","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Balancing the scales on the driver weight issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes it pays to be a lightweight. That doesn&#8217;t mean, however, that a 40-pound weight advantage will help Danica Patrick significantly at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, a lighter car is generally viewed as a better car. And, yes, the total weight of Patrick plus her racecar is 40 pounds lighter than it is for almost every other driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Why?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/balancing-the-scales-on-nascar-weight-issue\/article\/281297\/\" 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>Sometimes it pays to be a lightweight. That doesn&#8217;t mean, however, that a 40-pound weight advantage will help Danica Patrick significantly at Daytona International Speedway. Yes, a lighter car is generally viewed as a better car. And, yes, the total weight of Patrick plus her racecar is 40 pounds lighter than it is for almost [&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-75721","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\/75721","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=75721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75722,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75721\/revisions\/75722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}