{"id":12911,"date":"2014-04-26T21:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T01:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12911"},"modified":"2014-04-26T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T01:35:28","slug":"clint-bowyers-race-at-richmond-ends-after-car-catches-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/04\/26\/clint-bowyers-race-at-richmond-ends-after-car-catches-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Bowyer&#8217;s race at Richmond ends after car catches on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12912\" alt=\"bowyercar\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/bowyercar.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/bowyercar.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/bowyercar-594x324.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/bowyercar-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clint Bowyer saw his night at Richmond International Raceway end when his right front caught on fire presumably due to tire debris from the inside of his right front tire.<\/p>\n<p>Bowyer had a small flicker of fire on the right front of his car when he came to pit road, moments later the front end of his AAA Insurance Toyota was melting away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hub.video.msn.com\/embed\/48e624c6-b512-4f61-b105-ebee89d40d0f\/?vars=c3luZGljYXRpb249dGFnJmxpbmtvdmVycmlkZTI9aHR0cCUzQSUyRiUyRm1zbi5mb3hzcG9ydHMuY29tJTJGbmFzY2FyJTJGc3RvcnklMkZmcmlnaHQtbmlnaHQtYm93eWVyLXMtZGlmZmljdWx0aWVzLWNvbnRpbnVlLXVuZGVyLXJpY2htb25kLWxpZ2h0cy0wNDI2MTQlM0Z2aWRlb0lkJTNEJTdCMCU3RCUyNmZyb20lM0QmZnI9c2hhcmVlbWJlZC1zeW5kaWNhdGlvbiZjb25maWdOYW1lPXN5bmRpY2F0aW9ucGxheWVyJmJyYW5kPWZveHNwb3J0cyZsaW5rYmFjaz1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmJpbmcuY29tJTJGdmlkZW9zJm1rdD1lbi11cyZjb25maWdDc2lkPU1TTlZpZGVv\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I want to say sorry to Kyle,\u201d Bowyer told Fox Sports about his early incident with pole sitter Kyle Larson.. \u201cI\u2019m a big fan of his, he\u2019s been doing a great job, and I hate that it happened on the first lap. Him and [Brad Keselowski] kind of spun their tires, I got a big run on him, and he moved up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Here we go to the lead\u2019, and at that time, he cut down and I flat got into him. I\u2019m glad he didn\u2019t get in the wall there. The last thing I want to do was ruin his day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowyer expected to be a contender at Richmond but instead finishes with a 43rd place finish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a good car in practice,\u201d he said. \u201cI have absolutely no idea what happened tonight. I did not see this coming. I really though we were gonna have a shot at contending for the win tonight. It\u2019s kind of the story of our year so far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Bowyer saw his night at Richmond International Raceway end when his right front caught on fire presumably due to tire debris from the inside of his right front tire. Bowyer had a small flicker of fire on the right front of his car when he came to pit road, moments later the front end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[154,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-12911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-clint-bowyer","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911","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=12911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}