{"id":79825,"date":"2013-05-29T07:04:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79825"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:04:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:04:50","slug":"nascar-or-indycar-which-series-ruled-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79825","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR or IndyCar: Which series ruled Memorial Day weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fourteen leaders. 68 lead changes. A three-wide battle coming off a restart that decides the race. Read those two lines and you\u2019re probably thinking, \u201ctypical NASCAR race at Talladega.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nope. Instead, those stats defined what could be the best Indianapolis 500 in a generation. As we look back at the Coca-Cola 600, it\u2019s important to stop and recognize open-wheel\u2019s glory day because the event was everything NASCAR was not. There was a sentimental winner, Tony Kanaan, whose post-race celebration from teams and crews became reminiscent of Dale Earnhardt\u2019s Daytona 500 \u201cmonkey off his back\u201d victory of 1998. There was passing paired with a sense of urgency \u2014 and not just on Lap 190 of 200 \u2014 but throughout the entire event\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athlonsports.com\/nascar\/nascar-or-indycar-which-series-ruled-memorial-day-weekend\" 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>Fourteen leaders. 68 lead changes. A three-wide battle coming off a restart that decides the race. Read those two lines and you\u2019re probably thinking, \u201ctypical NASCAR race at Talladega.\u201d Nope. Instead, those stats defined what could be the best Indianapolis 500 in a generation. As we look back at the Coca-Cola 600, it\u2019s important to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79825","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=79825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79827,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79825\/revisions\/79827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}