{"id":6560,"date":"2011-08-02T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-08-02T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:41:26","slug":"the-magic-mile-speed-report-brickyard-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-magic-mile-speed-report-brickyard-400\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Magic Mile&#8217; Speed Report&#8217;; Brickyard 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season continues to be a season of firsts. Paul Menard kept the streak alive yesterday, becoming the fourth first time winner this year, capturing the Brickyard 400 checkered flag at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>*The win was Menard&#8217;s first in 167 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n*Behind the wheel of the No. 27 Menard&#8217;s Chevrolet, Paul Menard is the only driver to capture his first career win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>*Menard held off a hard charging Jeff Gordon who finished just .725 seconds behind him in second place.<\/p>\n<p>*The top-10 finishing positions: Paul Menard, Jeff Gordon, Regan Smith, Jamie McMurray, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle, Mark Martin, Brad Keselowski and Kyle Busch<\/p>\n<p>*The top-10 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points: Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>*The next NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 7, at Pocono Raceway. Coverage begins at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season continues to be a season of firsts. Paul Menard kept the streak alive yesterday, becoming the fourth first time winner this year, capturing the Brickyard 400 checkered flag at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. *The win was Menard&#8217;s first in 167 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-6560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}