{"id":3464,"date":"2011-05-30T06:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2011-05-30T06:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:29:19","slug":"nascar-fails-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/05\/30\/nascar-fails-again\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Fails Again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I admit it.  I am a Junior fan; really wanted Earnhardt Jr. to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/nascar\/cup\/columns\/story?columnist=newton_david&id=6605415\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/rpm\/nascar\/cup\/columns\/story?columnist=newton_david&amp;id=6605415', 'Coca-Cola 600 last night');\" target=\"_blank\">Coca-Cola 600 last night<\/a>.  With that said, Earnhardt\u2019s last win (104 or so races back) at <a href=\"http:\/\/nascar.about.com\/od\/2008nascarseason\/a\/michigan1.htm\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/nascar.about.com\/od\/2008nascarseason\/a\/michigan1.htm', 'Michigan (June 15, 2008)');\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan (June 15, 2008)<\/a> was a fuel mileage win.  Not that those should not count; they should and of course do.  I just hope that when Junior finally starts see the checkered flag(s), he wins on merit.<\/p>\n<p>The good news for NASCAR is that Junior is running well, currently sitting 4th in the standings.  Junior is to NASCAR what Ferrari is to F1.  It would have been great for NASCAR if Earnhardt Jr. could finally get the monkey off his back.  Instead, he has to wait knowing that he continues to run (and race) better with each passing week.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news for NASCAR is that the run towards the checkered flag looked to be a bit of a fix.  NASCAR has throw caution flags for lesser incidents than the mayhem on the final restart.  A caution would have setup a green-white-checker finish, and of course relegate one Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the back of the pack as he would have to stop for a splash of gas.  Instead the NASCAR race officials kept the yellow hanky in their pocket, giving Junior every possible chance to win.<\/p>\n<p>The end result was an interesting race, and of course a lot of rumblings about why NASCAR held the caution.  At the end of the day, this could be good news for NASCAR as it builds up more attention for the summer races, but NASCAR did nothing to further the stigma that it puts of a show, playing favorites, and ultimately controlling the outcome of each race.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>OK, I admit it. I am a Junior fan; really wanted Earnhardt Jr. to win the Coca-Cola 600 last night. With that said, Earnhardt\u2019s last win (104 or so races back) at Michigan (June 15, 2008) was a fuel mileage win. Not that those should not count; they should and of course do. I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2011\/05\/30\/nascar-fails-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASCAR Fails Again &#8230;<\/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=\"https:\/\/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-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}