{"id":1947,"date":"2010-01-18T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/18\/daytona-speedweeks-is-upon-us\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:08:26","slug":"daytona-speedweeks-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/18\/daytona-speedweeks-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytona Speedweeks Is Upon Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com\/', 'Speedweeks');\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Speedweeks<\/em><\/a> is the traditional start to the 2010 racing year, with the Rolex 24 at Daytona only a couple of weekends away (12 days to be precise).  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/ganassi-attracts-stars-for-daytona\/article\/160961\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.racer.com\/ganassi-attracts-stars-for-daytona\/article\/160961\/', 'RACER');\" target=\"_blank\">RACER<\/a>, Team Ganassi will have the strongest driver lineup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ganassi, which has won three of the past four editions of the legendary endurance event, will have arguably the strongest lineup on the grid, fielding former IndyCar Series champions and Indianapolis 500 winners Juan Pablo Montoya, Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon \u2013 all former Rolex 24 winners as well \u2013 in the team\u2019s No. 02 car, where NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Jamie McMurray will also take turns behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 01 car will be driven by former Grand-Am champions and Daytona event winners Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, joined by Indy car hotshoe Justin Wilson and American Le Mans regular Marino Franchitti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year the Daytona 500 falls on Valentine\u2019s Day.  How sweet is that?  I already told my wife what I want \u2013 unfettered access to the TV all afternoon watching the opening race of the year.  A little something from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriassecret.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.victoriassecret.com\/', 'v-secrets');\" target=\"_blank\">v-secrets<\/a> would be nice as well, but I don\u2019t want to push my luck!<\/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>Speedweeks is the traditional start to the 2010 racing year, with the Rolex 24 at Daytona only a couple of weekends away (12 days to be precise). According to RACER, Team Ganassi will have the strongest driver lineup: Ganassi, which has won three of the past four editions of the legendary endurance event, will have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/01\/18\/daytona-speedweeks-is-upon-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daytona Speedweeks Is Upon Us<\/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":[19],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}