{"id":22558,"date":"2019-10-30T22:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22558"},"modified":"2019-10-30T22:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T02:14:52","slug":"honda-has-interest-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/10\/30\/honda-has-interest-in-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda has interest in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Talk of Honda joining NASCAR in the future continues to pursuits. With a new generation of cars set to hit the track soon, the time for a new manufacturer would make sense from a budget point of view.<\/p>\n

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During the IMSA finale at Road Atlanta\u2019s Petit Le Mans, <\/span>Motorsport<\/a> asked Art St. Cyr \u2013 who was Honda Performance Development president until April, and is now VP and business head of Auto Operations for American Honda \u2013 for his corporate view of NASCAR racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always keep an eye on it,\u201d said St. Cyr. \u201cWe look at it peripherally, right now. But it is something that interests us. Given the opportunity, we\u2019d jump at the chance to do that as soon as it makes sense for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

So there you have it. Interest but nothing concrete.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk of Honda joining NASCAR in the future continues to pursuits. With a new generation of cars set to hit the track soon, the time for a new manufacturer would make sense from a budget point of view. During the IMSA finale at Road Atlanta\u2019s Petit Le Mans, Motorsport asked Art St. Cyr \u2013 who was Honda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,1150,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-22558","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-honda","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558","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=22558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22558"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}