{"id":14705,"date":"2014-08-31T23:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T03:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2014-08-31T23:13:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T03:13:46","slug":"tony-stewart-crashes-out-in-nascar-return-finishes-41st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/08\/31\/tony-stewart-crashes-out-in-nascar-return-finishes-41st\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stewart crashes out in NASCAR return, finishes 41st"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14706\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14706\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/tonystewart2.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/tonystewart2.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/08\/tonystewart2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tony Stewart&#8217;s return to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series did not last a full race. The three-time Sprint Cup Series champion lost a right front tire early in Sunday&#8217;s running of the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway ending his night.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart began the race 12th but quickly worked his way up to fourth following a few three wide passes.<\/p>\n<p>On a lap 122 restart\u00a0was hit by Kyle Busch sending his car into the wall damaging his right side and suspension. Later Stewart would lose a right front tire on lap 170 sending him behind the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart declined a post race interview request but felt well about the effort his team gave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry guys, you deserve better than this,&#8221; Stewart radioed his crew as he drove his car behind the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Given a waiver prior to this weekend, Stewart can still make his way into the Chase should he win next weekend at Richmond International Raceway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stewart&#8217;s return to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series did not last a full race. The three-time Sprint Cup Series champion lost a right front tire early in Sunday&#8217;s running of the Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway ending his night. Stewart began the race 12th but quickly worked his way up to fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708,637],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-14705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-tony-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","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=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}