{"id":12932,"date":"2014-04-29T20:58:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2014-04-29T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:58:02","slug":"nascar-announces-fines-for-marcos-ambrose-and-casey-mears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/04\/29\/nascar-announces-fines-for-marcos-ambrose-and-casey-mears\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR announces fines for Marcos Ambrose and Casey Mears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12933\" alt=\"ambrosemears\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ambrosemears1.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ambrosemears1.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ambrosemears1-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ambrosemears1-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ambrosemears1-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has announced the penalties for Sprint Cup Series drivers Marcos Ambrose and Casey Mears for their post-race altercation at Richmond International Raceway last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the race the two drivers got into a heated argument that resulted in Mears aggressively pushing Ambrose before Ambrose punched Mears in the eye.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers were found to have violated Section 12-1\u00a0(actions detrimental to stock car racing), and 12-4.9 (Behavioral Penalty; involved in an altercation in the garage area after the race) of the NASCAR rule book<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose has been fined $25,000 while Mears was fined $15,000. Both drivers were played on probation until May 28.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR has announced the penalties for Sprint Cup Series drivers Marcos Ambrose and Casey Mears for their post-race altercation at Richmond International Raceway last Saturday. Following the race the two drivers got into a heated argument that resulted in Mears aggressively pushing Ambrose before Ambrose punched Mears in the eye. Both drivers were found to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[116,396,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-casey-mears","11":"tag-marcos-ambrose","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","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=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}