{"id":22293,"date":"2019-10-06T20:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22293"},"modified":"2019-10-06T20:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T00:50:30","slug":"blown-motor-leaves-elliott-in-tough-situation-after-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/10\/06\/blown-motor-leaves-elliott-in-tough-situation-after-dover\/","title":{"rendered":"Blown motor leaves Elliott in tough situation after Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22294\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/chaseelliottpinkdover-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/chaseelliottpinkdover-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/chaseelliottpinkdover-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/chaseelliottpinkdover-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/10\/chaseelliottpinkdover-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A blown motor on lap 7 of Sunday&#8217;s race at Dover International Speedway has left Chase Elliott in a tough spot as fas as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we don\u2019t really know what it was just yet. It just quit running. It didn\u2019t really seem like anything was off. We were just kind of making laps and then obviously had a failure. It\u2019s an unfortunate way to start this round for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The blown motor puts Elliott in a position where he will almost surely need to win but fortunately for him he has previously won at all three tracks in the round of 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where we\u2019ll stack up. I assume we\u2019ll have to win one of these next few weeks. If you ever make it to Homestead, you\u2019re going to have to win down there. I guess it\u2019s a good opportunity to practice here these next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blown motor on lap 7 of Sunday&#8217;s race at Dover International Speedway has left Chase Elliott in a tough spot as fas as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. &#8220;Unfortunately, we don\u2019t really know what it was just yet. It just quit running. It didn\u2019t really seem like anything was off. We were just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[128,202,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-chase-elliott","10":"tag-dover-international-speedway","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293","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=22293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}