{"id":3297,"date":"2012-09-01T22:26:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2012-09-01T22:26:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T02:26:31","slug":"ricky-stenhouse-jr-wins-nra-american-warrior-300-at-atlanta-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/09\/01\/ricky-stenhouse-jr-wins-nra-american-warrior-300-at-atlanta-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Wins NRA American Warrior 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the N0.6 Cargill Ford Mustang for Roush Fenway Racing won tonight&#8217;s American Warrior 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the Nationwide Series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ricky+Stenhouse+Jr+NRA+American+Warrior+300+y8qqmCPxfJ_l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3345\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ricky+Stenhouse+Jr+NRA+American+Warrior+300+y8qqmCPxfJ_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Stenhouse beat out Kevin Harvick with 4 laps to go on the final restart of the race to win his fourth race of the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>Stenhouse credited the late push by Keselowski for him winning the race. He said that Keselowski will be a great Ford team mate next season when Stenhouse moves up to the Cup level.<\/p>\n<p>After the race Harvick had words with Keselowski. Harvick blamed Keselowski for throwing a water bottle to bring out a debris caution on lap 182. NASCAR says that the caution was not thrown for a water bottle. Harvick disagreed with that assessment saying that they throw cautions &#8220;when they want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was the eighth consecutive Nationwide race in a row in which Harvick led the most laps and failed to win.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott Sadler maintains a 12 point lead over Stenhouse in the overall Nationwide standings, Sam Hornish is third followed by Austin Dillon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the N0.6 Cargill Ford Mustang for Roush Fenway Racing won tonight&#8217;s American Warrior 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the Nationwide Series. Stenhouse beat out Kevin Harvick with 4 laps to go on the final restart of the race to win his fourth race of the 2012 season. Stenhouse credited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[542],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"tag-ricky-stenhouse-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}