{"id":7755,"date":"2009-04-06T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2009-04-06T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T02:24:05","slug":"automobile-nascar-biffle-martin-montoya-gain-momentum-ground-at-tms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7755","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Biffle, Martin, Montoya gain momentum, ground at TMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mark Martin, Greg Biffle, Juan Montoya and Matt Kenseth executed a net gain of 21 positions in the Sprint Cup standings after Sunday&#8217;s Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway; and in the case of Biffle and Montoya, they were both coming forward at race&#8217;s end on the race track, as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Biffle ended the day a fast-closing third; Kenseth had his first top-five finish since he won the season&#8217;s first two races, in fifth; Martin was sixth and Montoya right behind him in seventh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Sunday, Biffle had the biggest reason to be disappointed, as his No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford had led three times for 93 laps, second only to race winner Jeff Gordon&#8217;s total of 105 circuits out front. But a pit-road miscue with less than &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/04\/06\/post.race.gbiffle.mmartin.jmontoya.mkenseth.texas\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/headlines\/cup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/placeholder-3701054?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Martin, Greg Biffle, Juan Montoya and Matt Kenseth executed a net gain of 21 positions in the Sprint Cup standings after Sunday&#8217;s Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway; and in the case of Biffle and Montoya, they were both coming forward at race&#8217;s end on the race track, as well. Biffle ended the day [&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-7755","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\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7757,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}