{"id":12655,"date":"2014-04-07T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:45:42","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-catches-on-fire-after-running-though-grass-at-texas-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/04\/07\/dale-earnhardt-jr-catches-on-fire-after-running-though-grass-at-texas-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. catches on fire after running through grass at Texas (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12656\" alt=\"dalejrfire\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/dalejrfire.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/dalejrfire.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/dalejrfire-594x334.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/dalejrfire-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/dalejrfire-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Duck Commander 500 was postponed until Monday. The first ten laps of the race were run under caution and once the race went green it took only a few laps before one car found it&#8217;s way off the track.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr. said in a interview that he made a mistake and drove his No. 88 National Guard Chevrolet into the grass on the front-stretch at Texas Motor Speedway. The results was a shark turn right and a fireball erupting and following his car around the track. Earnhardt Jr. parked his car and evacuated safely.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tD1eJenFiuc\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Damaged in the incident was the windshield and front end of Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>and that windshield als looks second hand <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Johnson&amp;src=hash\">#Johnson<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/B2bkbD8Aa7\">pic.twitter.com\/B2bkbD8Aa7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mattzel89 (@Mattzel89) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mattzel89\/statuses\/453212218662739968\">April 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was able to return to the track and Earnhardt&#8217;s crew has attempted to repair his car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just didn&#8217;t see the grass, didn&#8217;t know the grass was there that close,&#8221; Earnhardt said in a interview on FOX. &#8220;The way the A post is in these cars, you can&#8217;t really see that good to that angle. I didn&#8217;t have a good visual where the grass is. That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t run through (the grass) the way we&#8217;ve got these cars on the ground. Just a mistake on my part.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duck Commander 500 was postponed until Monday. The first ten laps of the race were run under caution and once the race went green it took only a few laps before one car found it&#8217;s way off the track. Dale Earnhardt Jr. said in a interview that he made a mistake and drove his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655","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=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}