{"id":5953,"date":"2013-02-06T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:24:59","slug":"photos-darlington-goodyear-tire-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/02\/06\/photos-darlington-goodyear-tire-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Darlington Goodyear Tire Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5950\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5950\" alt=\"dtest5\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/dtest5.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/dtest5.jpg 573w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/02\/dtest5-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Photos Credit: Harrelson Photography Inc. \/ Darlington Raceway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASCAR held Goodyear tire testing at Darlington on Feb.5, 2013.\u00a0 Drivers said speeds were up at the race track with the new Gen 6 race car. The test included Carl Edwards, Juan Pablo Montoya, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Paul Menard.<br \/>\n<center>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;5945&#8242;]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Edwards found the new car to be faster and racers should expect better handling and tighter racing when the circuit returns to NASCAR&#8217;s oldest super speedway for the Southern 500 on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>Truex Jr. said he is confident a driver will shatter Darlington&#8217;s record qualifying speed of 181.254 mph set by Kasey Kahne at the 2011 race.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR held Goodyear tire testing at Darlington on Feb.5, 2013.\u00a0 Drivers said speeds were up at the race track with the new Gen 6 race car. The test included Carl Edwards, Juan Pablo Montoya, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Paul Menard. [slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;5945&#8242;] Edwards found the new car to be faster and racers should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[114,194,348,714],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-5953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-carl-edwards","8":"tag-denny-hamlin","9":"tag-juan-pablo-montoya","10":"tag-martin-truex-jr-paul-menard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","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=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}