{"id":20579,"date":"2019-05-02T16:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:34:48","slug":"wooooo-charlotte-flair-named-pace-car-driver-for-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/05\/02\/wooooo-charlotte-flair-named-pace-car-driver-for-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooooo! Charlotte Flair named pace car driver for Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20580\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/charlotte-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/charlotte-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/charlotte-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/charlotte-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/charlotte-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/charlotte.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Motor Speedway is set to host its two biggest races of the year \u2026 and they\u2019re going to do it with \u201cFlair!\u201d Eight-time WWE Women\u2019s Champion Charlotte Flair \u2013 a native of Charlotte, North Carolina \u2013 will assume honorary pace car driver duties for the Coca-Cola 600 on May 26.<\/p>\n<p>The WWE royalty will lead a field of NASCAR stars including Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Joey Logano and more before the green flag drops on the iconic event.<\/p>\n<p>Flair has won more women\u2019s titles than any superstar in WWE history and is the daughter of 16-time world champion Ric Flair. Flair also became the first female superstar in WWE history to main event a singles match on Raw, SmackDown LIVE and a pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>FOX will carry the Coca-Cola 600. Additionally, FOX will become the new broadcast home for WWE SmackDown LIVE starting Friday, Oct. 4. Fox Sports 1 will also be the new home of a Tuesday-night WWE studio show which will cover all the happenings in the WWE universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Motor Speedway is set to host its two biggest races of the year \u2026 and they\u2019re going to do it with \u201cFlair!\u201d Eight-time WWE Women\u2019s Champion Charlotte Flair \u2013 a native of Charlotte, North Carolina \u2013 will assume honorary pace car driver duties for the Coca-Cola 600 on May 26. The WWE royalty will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[1082,127,708,1083],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-charlotte-flair","9":"tag-charlotte-motor-speedway","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579","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=20579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}