{"id":10922,"date":"2013-11-12T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2013-11-12T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:25:11","slug":"johnson-will-clinch-championship-with-finish-of-23rd-or-better-at-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/11\/12\/johnson-will-clinch-championship-with-finish-of-23rd-or-better-at-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson will clinch Championship with finish of 23rd or better at Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10925\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10925\" alt=\"Getty Images for NASCAR\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/johnson.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/johnson.jpg 573w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/johnson-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images for NASCAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season is coming to a close this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, FL.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR fans will bid farewell to the 2013 season and wait eagerly the three and a half months until NASCAR returns for a new season full of excitement.<\/p>\n<p>But first a Champion will be crowned, and unless Johnson makes a huge mistake at the beginning laps of the race, he will be looking at his sixth Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson leads Matt Kenseth by 28 points in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings, going into Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson will clinch his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup championship with a finish of 23rd or better at HMS; or 24th or better and at least one lap led; or 25th or better and the most laps led in Sunday\u0019s Ford EcoBoost 400.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick, 34 points behind Johnson, remains the only other driver mathematically eligible for the 2013 championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season is coming to a close this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, FL. NASCAR fans will bid farewell to the 2013 season and wait eagerly the three and a half months until NASCAR returns for a new season full of excitement. But first a Champion will be crowned, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[708],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":{"0":"post-10922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-news","9":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}