{"id":80785,"date":"2013-06-22T06:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80785"},"modified":"2013-06-22T06:58:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T13:58:38","slug":"nascars-nelson-piquet-frustrated-with-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80785","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR&#8217;s Nelson Piquet frustrated with progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nelson Piquet Jr. was surging with confidence after winning the Nationwide race at Road America a year ago, optimistic that his success would lead to a full-time ride in NASCAR&#8217;s second-tier series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now Piquet returns to the scene of his biggest stock-car racing moment still trying to find his footing on the next rung up the ladder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Obviously, I&#8217;m frustrated with our results,&#8221; Piquet said Friday. &#8220;We&#8217;re not where I wanted to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Piquet, the first Brazilian to win a race in one of NASCAR&#8217;s major national series and the son of a three-time Formula One champion\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2013\/racing\/wires\/06\/21\/3010.ap.car.nascar.nationwide.road.america.1st.ld.writethru.0898\/\" 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>Nelson Piquet Jr. was surging with confidence after winning the Nationwide race at Road America a year ago, optimistic that his success would lead to a full-time ride in NASCAR&#8217;s second-tier series. Now Piquet returns to the scene of his biggest stock-car racing moment still trying to find his footing on the next rung up [&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-80785","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\/80785","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=80785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80786,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80785\/revisions\/80786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}