{"id":15629,"date":"2014-11-10T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=15629"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:18:30","slug":"kyle-larson-comments-on-ryan-newmans-last-lap-pass-at-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/11\/10\/kyle-larson-comments-on-ryan-newmans-last-lap-pass-at-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson comments on Ryan Newman&#8217;s last lap pass at Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/11\/kylelarson.jpg\" alt=\"kylelarson\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/11\/kylelarson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/11\/kylelarson-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nRyan Newman advanced into the final round for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship thanks to a last lap pass of Kyle Larson.<\/p>\n<p>Newman needing one spot bumped into the No. 42 of Larson knocking him out of the way and making the pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming to the finish, there were a lot of cars racing really hard,\u2019\u2019 Larson said in a statement provided by Chip Ganassi Racing. \u201cI knew (Newman) was right around me and knew he needed to gain some spots to keep from getting eliminated from the Chase.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a little upsetting he pushed me up to the wall, but I completely understand the situation he was in and can&#8217;t fault him for being aggressive there. I think a lot of drivers out here would have done something similar if they were in that position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move by Newman allows him to go into Homestead looking for a championship. He will need to finish ahead of Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano to make that happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Newman advanced into the final round for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship thanks to a last lap pass of Kyle Larson. Newman needing one spot bumped into the No. 42 of Larson knocking him out of the way and making the pass. &#8220;Coming to the finish, there were a lot of cars racing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[773,708,564],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-15629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-kyle-larson","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-ryan-newman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15629","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=15629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}