{"id":7713,"date":"2009-04-06T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2009-04-06T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T23:34:22","slug":"automobile-sports-car-nascar-bad-races-can-wreck-a-lot-for-upstart-racing-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7713","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Sports Car NASCAR &#8211; Bad races can wreck a lot for upstart racing teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">About an hour before Friday&#8217;s qualifying round, shortly before driver David Gilliland strapped into his No. 71 Chevrolet, conspicuous by the blank space on the blue car&#8217;s hood where a sponsor&#8217;s logo belongs, upstart team owner Kevin Buckler arrived at the TRG Motorsports hauler at Texas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Inside the outfitted 18-wheeler, the team&#8217;s race-week headquarters, Buckler touted his team&#8217;s modest successes through six races on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit and its loftier goals, while scraping by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A half-hour later, Buckler would climb atop the hauler to watch&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/spt\/motorsports\/tms\/stories\/040609dnspotmsteam.416cee3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About an hour before Friday&#8217;s qualifying round, shortly before driver David Gilliland strapped into his No. 71 Chevrolet, conspicuous by the blank space on the blue car&#8217;s hood where a sponsor&#8217;s logo belongs, upstart team owner Kevin Buckler arrived at the TRG Motorsports hauler at Texas Motor Speedway. Inside the outfitted 18-wheeler, the team&#8217;s race-week [&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-7713","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\/7713","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=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}