{"id":18262,"date":"2018-03-25T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18262"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T16:04:34","slug":"nascar-races-at-martinsville-snowed-out-postponed-until-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/03\/25\/nascar-races-at-martinsville-snowed-out-postponed-until-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR races at Martinsville snowed out, postponed until Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18263\" style=\"width: 922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18263\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/lukelambert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/lukelambert.jpg 922w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/lukelambert-594x322.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/lukelambert-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/03\/lukelambert-768x416.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Luke Lambert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Snow fell overnight at Martinsville Speedwat forcing NASCAR to cancel both scheduled races on Sunday. Both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series&#8217; STP 500 and the conclusion of the Camping World Truck Series&#8217; Alpha Energy 250 will take place on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to their normal delay in making annoucements, NACAR&#8217;s operation director Steve O&#8217;Donnell annouced just after 7 am ET that there would be no NASCAR activity at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday tweeting the following,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Way more snow than anticipated last night-Met with track\/local authorities this morning-resources need to be dedicated to local community-roads-trees down, etc. We\u2019ll put on a great day of <span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">@<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value Tweet-prettyLink\">NASCAR<\/span> Monday. <span class=\"PrettyLink-prefix\">#<\/span><span class=\"PrettyLink-value Tweet-prettyLink\">doubleheader<\/span> Always a tough call but the right one in this case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fans with tickets to either the Truck Series or Cup Series event will be allowed to enter the track on Monday to watch both events.<\/p>\n<p>The Truck race will start at 11 am ET on Monday with the Cup Series event to follow starting around 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow fell overnight at Martinsville Speedwat forcing NASCAR to cancel both scheduled races on Sunday. Both the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series&#8217; STP 500 and the conclusion of the Camping World Truck Series&#8217; Alpha Energy 250 will take place on Monday. In contrast to their normal delay in making annoucements, NACAR&#8217;s operation director Steve O&#8217;Donnell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18262","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-front","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262","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=18262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18262"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}