{"id":11066,"date":"2013-12-05T20:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:51:49","slug":"dale-jr-most-popular-nascar-driver-for-11th-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/12\/05\/dale-jr-most-popular-nascar-driver-for-11th-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Jr. most popular NASCAR driver for 11th year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10322\" alt=\"daleearnhardtjr\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/daleearnhardtjr.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/daleearnhardtjr.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/10\/daleearnhardtjr-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the most popular driver in NASCAR is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Earnhardt Jr. won the honor for the 11th year in a row. He should easily win it again next year as well.<\/p>\n<p>With the selection of Earnhardt Jr. as the most popular driver this season he breaks a tie with Bill Elliott for most consecutive seasons as the Most Popular Driver. Elliott won the award a record 16 times, a number Earnhardt will have no problem breaking if he races long enough.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s top 10 drivers, in order of votes received, were: Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Danica Patrick, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards.<\/p>\n<div>So how popular is he? Earnhardt collected 700,000 of the 1-million votes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the most popular driver in NASCAR is&#8230;. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Earnhardt Jr. won the honor for the 11th year in a row. He should easily win it again next year as well. With the selection of Earnhardt Jr. as the most popular driver this season he breaks a tie with Bill Elliott for most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[170,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-11066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}