{"id":92405,"date":"2014-03-30T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92405"},"modified":"2014-03-30T12:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:37:21","slug":"nascars-driver-numbers-stories-behind-the-most-recognizable-digits-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=92405","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR&#8217;s driver numbers: Stories behind the most recognizable digits and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">The stylized 3 will appear in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing at Texas Motor Speedway this week for the first time since 2000. Austin Dillon, driving the Chevrolet SS of Richard Childress Racing, understands the heavy obligation that comes with carrying the number popularized by the powerful Dale Earnhardt before his death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">\u201cDale Earnhardt is Dale Earnhardt not only because of the number but because he was a hero and created so many things for this sport,\u201d said Dillon, a Cup rookie. \u201cThe number \u2026 hopefully I can continue the legacy that it has and keep on moving with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got to have those blinders on because you want to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/more-sports\/motor-sports\/headlines\/20140329-nascar-s-driver-numbers-stories-behind-the-most-recognizable-digits-and-more.ece\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stylized 3 will appear in NASCAR Sprint Cup racing at Texas Motor Speedway this week for the first time since 2000. Austin Dillon, driving the Chevrolet SS of Richard Childress Racing, understands the heavy obligation that comes with carrying the number popularized by the powerful Dale Earnhardt before his death. \u201cDale Earnhardt is Dale [&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-92405","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\/92405","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=92405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92406,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92405\/revisions\/92406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}