{"id":13473,"date":"2014-05-25T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2014-05-25T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T01:51:13","slug":"kurt-bush-blows-engine-in-coca-cola-600-fails-to-complete-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/05\/25\/kurt-bush-blows-engine-in-coca-cola-600-fails-to-complete-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Bush blows engine in Coca Cola 600, fails to complete double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13474\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/kurtbusch.jpg\" alt=\"kurtbusch\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/kurtbusch.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/kurtbusch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Busch scored a sixth place finish in the Indianapolis 500, his first ever IndyCar start. Busch arrived at Charlotte Motor Speedway a short time later looking for a good run out of his No. 41 Chevrolet SS in\u00a0the evenings NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca Cola 600.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in the back of the field due to missing the mandatory drivers meeting, Busch rallied to mid pack. He benefited from a few cautions and after falling a lap down was able to get it back via the lucky dog.<\/p>\n<p>In the end Busch would have engine troubles as he car would lose a cylinder and eventually blow up\u00a0after 271 laps.<\/p>\n<p>Of the handful of drivers who have attemped to run the full 1,100 miles only Tony Stewart has been able to pull it off &#8211; doing so in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Busch scored a sixth place finish in the Indianapolis 500, his first ever IndyCar start. Busch arrived at Charlotte Motor Speedway a short time later looking for a good run out of his No. 41 Chevrolet SS in\u00a0the evenings NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca Cola 600. Starting in the back of the field due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,372,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-13473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-kurt-busch","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","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=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}