{"id":8096,"date":"2013-06-12T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2013-06-12T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:09:13","slug":"paulie-harraka-to-attempt-cup-debut-at-sonoma-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/06\/12\/paulie-harraka-to-attempt-cup-debut-at-sonoma-raceway\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulie Harraka to attempt Cup debut at Sonoma Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8097\" alt=\"paulieharraka\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/paulieharraka.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/paulieharraka.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/paulieharraka-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/paulieharraka-1024x476.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paulie Harraka will attempt to make the field for the Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway next week.<\/p>\n<p>Harraka will try to make the field in the No. 52 Ford of Go Green Racing with sponsorship coming from HASA Pool Products. If Harraka, 23, makes the field, he will be the first Drive for Diversity graduate to compete at the Sprint Cup level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited,\u201d Harraka told FOXSports.com. &#8220;. . . I\u2019ve worked really hard to get this opportunity. I don\u2019t think it has 100 percent set in yet, but it\u2019s really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus far Harraka has had little success in a handful of races in NASCAR&#8217;s Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, really, the D4D program is what gave me the opportunity to learn and grow in stock cars and to start winning in the NASCAR ranks. It represents significant progress in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulie Harraka will attempt to make the field for the Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway next week. Harraka will try to make the field in the No. 52 Ford of Go Green Racing with sponsorship coming from HASA Pool Products. If Harraka, 23, makes the field, he will be the first Drive for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-8096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","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=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}