{"id":12516,"date":"2014-03-30T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2014-03-30T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T03:00:31","slug":"ambrose-almirola-finish-solid-at-martinsville-for-rpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/03\/30\/ambrose-almirola-finish-solid-at-martinsville-for-rpm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambrose, Almirola finish solid at Martinsville for RPM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5013 aligncenter\" alt=\"Richard Petty, Aric Almirola, Marcos Ambrose\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/ambrosealmirola.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/ambrosealmirola.jpg 512w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2012\/11\/ambrosealmirola-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola both finished in the top-ten at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday afternoon, after a long week for the team mourning the loss of team owner Richard Petty&#8217;s wife, Lynda.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12520 alignright\" alt=\"decal\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/decal.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/decal.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/decal-568x418.jpg 568w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/03\/decal-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ambrose finished tenth (his\u00a0second top-5 in the last three races), while Almirola finished eighth (his second top-10 in the last three races).<\/p>\n<p>Several teams sported a decal on their cars during the STP 500 honoring the passing of Petty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;We\u2019ve had a really tough week.&#8221; Ambrose said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">We lost Miss Lynda. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Petty family right now. We really wanted to win for them bad out there, but we\u2019ll take a Top-5. We\u2019re really proud of our efforts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next Sprint Cup race takes place at Texas on April 6. Almirola&#8217;s best finish at Texas is seventh, which occurred at the Spring race last season. Ambrose finished 19th and 21st at the track last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola both finished in the top-ten at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday afternoon, after a long week for the team mourning the loss of team owner Richard Petty&#8217;s wife, Lynda. Ambrose finished tenth (his\u00a0second top-5 in the last three races), while Almirola finished eighth (his second top-10 in the last three races). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[46,396,409],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-aric-almirola","tag-marcos-ambrose","tag-martinsville-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}