{"id":168,"date":"2005-05-30T22:19:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-30T22:19:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T22:19:28","slug":"thats-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/05\/30\/thats-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall yesterday was a great day for racing.  As I indicated in previous posts (and comments), I immensely enjoyed the European GP, and the Indy 500 was a blast as well.  I am not sure what to make of the Coca-Cola 600; it was so damn long (5+ hours) with so many cautions (22) that at times it was too hard to watch because there was no flow to the action.  Let me run that by everyone again \u2013 22 cautions (a Cup record), or better said, 25% of the laps were run under a yellow flag (103 of 400 laps).  Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong; there was plenty of drama (Budweiser taking out Napa Auto \u2026 sorry, hard to resist), Vickers taking out damn near anyone he could hit, and of course the Labonte\/Johnson dual through the final turn.  I was pulling hard for my fellow Corpus Christi, TX native to pull it off, but unfortunately Bobby could not hold off Jimmy.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Labonte said it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo finish second really isn\u2019t all that bad, but to finish second kind of stinks, too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall yesterday was a great day for racing. As I indicated in previous posts (and comments), I immensely enjoyed the European GP, and the Indy 500 was a blast as well. I am not sure what to make of the Coca-Cola 600; it was so damn long (5+ hours) with so many cautions (22) that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/05\/30\/thats-racing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s Racing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}