{"id":172,"date":"2020-03-26T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/?p=172"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:09:45","slug":"the-indy-500-has-been-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/2020\/03\/26\/the-indy-500-has-been-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indy 500 has been postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2020\/03\/pagenaud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2020\/03\/pagenaud.jpg 940w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2020\/03\/pagenaud-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2020\/03\/pagenaud-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2020\/03\/pagenaud-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2020\/03\/pagenaud-700x420.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It always seemed it was just a matter of time but on Thursday the NTT IndyCar Series announced that the 2020 Indianapolis 500 will see a date change from its scheduled May 24th running.<\/p>\n<p>The annual running of the Indy 500 has been seen by many as the unofficial start to summer. A 200 lap race around Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Indy 500 sees drivers run at speeds approaching 230 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s announcement concerned both the GMR Grand Prix which will now be run on July 4th as part of a double header with the NASCAR Xfinity Series and the Indy 500 which has been moved to August 23.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Indy 500 was cancelled was due to World War II. The race has been rescheduled due to rain on three different occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always seemed it was just a matter of time but on Thursday the NTT IndyCar Series announced that the 2020 Indianapolis 500 will see a date change from its scheduled May 24th running. The annual running of the Indy 500 has been seen by many as the unofficial start to summer. A 200 lap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,26,25],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indycar","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-indianapolis-motor-speedway","10":"tag-simon-pagenaud"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}