{"id":22958,"date":"2019-12-05T15:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22958"},"modified":"2019-12-05T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:43:42","slug":"elliott-claims-back-to-back-most-popular-driver-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/12\/05\/elliott-claims-back-to-back-most-popular-driver-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott claims back-to-back most popular driver awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22957\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-594x371.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-768x480.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-1536x960.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-2048x1280.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-696x435.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-1068x668.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/12\/img_6586-672x420.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott continues to follow in the footsteps of his father.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday it was announced that Elliott, son of Bill Elliott, had won his second straight most popular driver award.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott became the first driver to win the award after the retirement of Dale Earnhardt Jr. who won the award 15 times in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically Bill Elliott holds the record as winning the award 16 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Elliott continues to follow in the footsteps of his father. On Thursday it was announced that Elliott, son of Bill Elliott, had won his second straight most popular driver award. Elliott became the first driver to win the award after the retirement of Dale Earnhardt Jr. who won the award 15 times in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[67,128,169,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22958","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-bill-elliott","11":"tag-chase-elliott","12":"tag-dale-eanrhardt-jr","13":"tag-front","14":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958","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=22958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22958"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}