{"id":9048,"date":"2013-08-07T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=9048"},"modified":"2013-08-08T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:31:06","slug":"jimmie-johnson-can-clinch-chase-spot-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/08\/07\/jimmie-johnson-can-clinch-chase-spot-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson can clinch Chase spot this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8470\" alt=\"jimmiejohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/jimmiejohnson3.jpg\" width=\"551\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/jimmiejohnson3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/06\/jimmiejohnson3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmie Johnson is the sole driver that can clinch a spot in the NASCAR Chase this weekend at Watkins Glen. Johnson has to leave The Glen with a 193-point lead over the 11th place driver. He currently holds a 178-point lead over 11th, which is occupied by Tony Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart will not be driving his No. 14 Chevrolet after an <a title=\"Video: Tony Stewart breaks leg in sprint car crash at Iowa\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/08\/06\/tony-stewart-breaks-leg-in-sprint-car-crash-at-iowa\/\">accident that left him with a broken leg<\/a> on Monday. Instead, Max Papis will assume his seat for the race.<\/p>\n<p>A win at The Glen will guarantee Johnson at least a Wild Card entry into this year&#8217;s post season. Johnson has already won four races thus far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, in 11 races at Watkins Glen has 6 top-ten finishes, and 4 top-five finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is the only competitor to have qualified for the Chase field in all nine seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmie Johnson is the sole driver that can clinch a spot in the NASCAR Chase this weekend at Watkins Glen. Johnson has to leave The Glen with a 193-point lead over the 11th place driver. He currently holds a 178-point lead over 11th, which is occupied by Tony Stewart. Stewart will not be driving his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[771,315],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-9048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-2013-chase-watch","tag-jimmie-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9048"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}