{"id":19852,"date":"2019-03-06T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19852"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:20:56","slug":"nashville-to-host-nascar-cup-series-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/06\/nashville-to-host-nascar-cup-series-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville to host NASCAR Cup Series Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0492.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19851\" width=\"2987\" height=\"1680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0492.jpg 2987w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0492-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0492-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0492-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0492-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2987px) 100vw, 2987px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">NASCAR announced on Wednesday that Nashville will serve as the host city for Champion\u2019s Week and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">The Awards will be held Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. Additional events will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cThis year, we set a course to look at everything we do through a different lens, including how we celebrate the champions of our sport,\u201d said Steve Phelps, NASCAR President. \u201cNashville\u2019s energy, vibrant entertainment scene, and deep-rooted lineage in motorsports informed our decision and we believe our fans and industry will embrace the move to the Music City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Las Vegas has been the site of the awards show dating back to 2009. Previously the event was held in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cNashville\u2019s history with NASCAR is indisputable, and coupled with our event experience we are a perfect match for NASCAR Champions Week,\u201d said Butch Spyridon, President and CEO, Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. \u201cWe look forward to welcoming NASCAR back home to Music City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR announced on Wednesday that Nashville will serve as the host city for Champion\u2019s Week and the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Awards. The Awards will be held Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. Additional events will be announced later. \u201cThis year, we set a course to look at everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-front","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852","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=19852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19852"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}