{"id":21571,"date":"2019-07-06T00:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=21571"},"modified":"2019-07-06T00:43:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:43:27","slug":"ross-chastain-spikes-watermelon-at-daytona-after-winning-xfinity-series-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/07\/06\/ross-chastain-spikes-watermelon-at-daytona-after-winning-xfinity-series-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Chastain spikes watermelon at Daytona after winning Xfinity Series race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/chastain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"569\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/chastain.png 830w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/chastain-594x407.png 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/chastain-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/07\/chastain-768x526.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><br \/>\nRoss Chastain celebrated his Xfinity Series win Friday night by taking a watermelon to the start finish line andd spiking it.<\/p>\n<p>Driving the No. 16 Chevrolet Camaro of Kaulig Racing, Chastain claimed his second win in the Xfinity Series doing so at his home track.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hide your watermelons. Ross Chastain is gonna smash ALL of them tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f349;&#x1f349;&#x1f349;&#x1f349;&#x1f3c1;&#x1f349;&#x1f349;&#x1f349;&#x1f349; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TcBkzO3GAa\">pic.twitter.com\/TcBkzO3GAa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARONFOX\/status\/1147363696332570624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chastain retold how he had watched races at Daytona in the stands as a youngster and then took the watermeleon out and spiked it. Not one to let a good melon go to waste, Chastain then ate some of it.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Chastain declared for Truck Series points as he is eyeing a title in that series with Niece Motorsports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Chastain celebrated his Xfinity Series win Friday night by taking a watermelon to the start finish line andd spiking it. Driving the No. 16 Chevrolet Camaro of Kaulig Racing, Chastain claimed his second win in the Xfinity Series doing so at his home track. Hide your watermelons. Ross Chastain is gonna smash ALL of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[191,789,708,774],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-21571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news","9":"tag-daytona-international-speedway","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-ross-chastain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571","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=21571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21571"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}