{"id":199,"date":"2021-04-17T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T02:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/?p=199"},"modified":"2022-07-18T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T01:10:52","slug":"oward-claims-p1-award-for-barber-motorsports-park-lineup-for-indycar-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/2021\/04\/17\/oward-claims-p1-award-for-barber-motorsports-park-lineup-for-indycar-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Ward claims P1 award for Barber Motorsports Park, lineup for IndyCar opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/oward.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/oward.jpg 602w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/oward-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pato O&#8217;Ward claimed the P1 award for the running of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I have earned by spot in the sport to challenge for podiums and wins,\u201d O\u2019Ward said. \u201cMan, we\u2019ve been working so hard in the offseason, and we\u2019re clicking. Everyone in the team is working well together, and I knew exactly what I needed to get the time out of the reds (Firestone alternate tires), especially. We just had to maintain pace on blacks (Firestone primary tires) because I thought we were pretty strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did that, and we\u2019re starting on pole. It feels good. These guys deserve it. We\u2019ve got a race to win tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The season opening IndyCar Race will take place at Barber Motorsports Park and consists of a 90-lap race, with live coverage starting at 3 p.m. (ET) Sunday on NBC and the IndyCar Radio Network.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/barber.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/barber.jpg 757w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/barber-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/barber-696x689.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2021\/04\/barber-424x420.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pato O&#8217;Ward claimed the P1 award for the running of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. &#8220;I feel like I have earned by spot in the sport to challenge for podiums and wins,\u201d O\u2019Ward said. \u201cMan, we\u2019ve been working so hard in the offseason, and we\u2019re clicking. Everyone in the team is working well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,10,37],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indycar","tag-barber-motorsports-park","tag-front","tag-pato-oward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}