{"id":10879,"date":"2013-11-09T18:33:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:33:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:33:44","slug":"austin-dillon-and-the-lamest-nationwide-title-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/11\/09\/austin-dillon-and-the-lamest-nationwide-title-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Dillon and the lamest Nationwide title ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7640\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7640\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/austindillon.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/austindillon.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/austindillon-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Austin Dillon holds an eight point lead over Sam Hornish and is on the cusp of collecting his second championship in one of NASCAR&#8217;s top touring series.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the opposite of everything NASCAR has tried to promote in recent years.\u00a0Simply put&#8230;. Champions are to win races and Dillon has not.<\/p>\n<p>Do not get me wrong. Dillon has had a fine season scoring 23 top ten finishes in 32 races following his third place finish at Phoenix. But really? Where is the win?<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch has won 12 Nationwide Series races this season so I can understand what some of you are thinking, in fact of the guys who can actually earn points and compete for a championship only thee have won races. Regan Smith scored two wins this season while Trevor Bayne and Sam Hornish have each won a race.<\/p>\n<p>If ever there was a case for not allowing full-time Sprint Cup Series drivers to run the Nationwide Series this is it.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who wins the most races does not been to be the champion but come on we want our champions to win at-least one race even as we refuse to make a case for Hornish or Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Even a year ago this was not exactly the case.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Stenhouse won two and six races during his back-to-back series titles in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Dillon holds an eight point lead over Sam Hornish and is on the cusp of collecting his second championship in one of NASCAR&#8217;s top touring series. It&#8217;s also the opposite of everything NASCAR has tried to promote in recent years.\u00a0Simply put&#8230;. Champions are to win races and Dillon has not. Do not get me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-10879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}