{"id":13988,"date":"2014-07-05T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=13988"},"modified":"2014-07-05T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T01:00:06","slug":"rain-forces-nascar-to-delay-start-of-coke-zero-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/07\/05\/rain-forces-nascar-to-delay-start-of-coke-zero-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain forces NASCAR to delay start of Coke Zero 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/daytonarain.jpg\" alt=\"daytonarain\" width=\"766\" height=\"404\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13989\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/daytonarain.jpg 766w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/daytonarain-594x313.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/daytonarain-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><br \/>\nThe rain this weekend at Daytona International Speedway has been well documented.<\/p>\n<p>It should come as no surprise that the start of Saturday&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race was delayed due to weather. The Coke Zero 400 was set to get underway shortly before 8:00 pm ET but thus far no activity has taken place at the track.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Does this look like a track that&#39;s ready for racing? I say no. 19 Air Titans at Daytona for the Coke Zero 400. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/50f5xApTOg\">pic.twitter.com\/50f5xApTOg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Kelly (@MichaelLKelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelLKelly\/statuses\/485582133558116352\">July 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thus far NASCAR has delayed making a decision that would push the race back to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The radar does not look promising for a race Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rain this weekend at Daytona International Speedway has been well documented. It should come as no surprise that the start of Saturday&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race was delayed due to weather. The Coke Zero 400 was set to get underway shortly before 8:00 pm ET but thus far no activity has taken place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-13988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988","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=13988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13988"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}