{"id":20816,"date":"2019-05-17T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:44:17","slug":"natalie-decker-starting-21st-in-first-charlotte-truck-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/05\/17\/natalie-decker-starting-21st-in-first-charlotte-truck-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Decker starting 21st in first Charlotte truck race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/decker-4.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20817\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/decker-4.jpg 960w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/decker-4-557x418.jpg 557w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/decker-4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/05\/decker-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Decker will start 21st Friday night&#8217;s Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at&nbsp;Charlotte Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Decker, 21, and most of the other truck series teams see Charlotte as a home track since their race shops are so close to the speedway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to race at Charlotte on Friday. There seems to be a lot of excitement around this weekend because it\u2019s a home race for everyone.\u201d says Decker, \u201cWe tested there a few months ago, and I\u2019ve been working on the simulator to help prepare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Wisconsin native is coming off a 25th place finish at Kansas and seeking to improve upon her best finish of 13th at Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal for the race is to get a good qualifying lap in, finish all the laps in the race and learn as much as possible. My DGR-Crosley team and I are hoping to get our best finish of the season this weekend in Charlotte.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Natalie Decker will start 21st Friday night&#8217;s Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at&nbsp;Charlotte Motor Speedway. Decker, 21, and most of the other truck series teams see Charlotte as a home track since their race shops are so close to the speedway. \u201cI\u2019m really excited to race at Charlotte on Friday. There seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,788],"tags":[127,708,963],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-truck-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-charlotte-motor-speedway","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-natalie-decker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816","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=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}