{"id":515,"date":"2012-05-13T16:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2012-05-20T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T21:25:26","slug":"nascar-2012-race-11-darlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/nascar-2012-race-11-darlington\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR 2012 Race 11 Darlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/68ec6e6c44b25f9748516715c7891182-getty-144262315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-516\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Bojangles' Southern 500\" src=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/68ec6e6c44b25f9748516715c7891182-getty-144262315-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>JIMMIE WINS!!! \u00c2\u00a0Number 200 for Hendrick Motorsports!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The race was incredibly boring until about lap 312. \u00c2\u00a0Lots and lots and lots and lots of green flag laps. \u00c2\u00a01 Caution for someone blowing up around lap 172. \u00c2\u00a0Then more green flag laps. \u00c2\u00a0A real snooze-fest!<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, around lap 312 the drivers seem to wake up and realize the end was nigh and it was time to actually do the job they&#8217;re paid to do and RACE!<\/p>\n<p>So the rest of the race was good. There were battles and action and a Green-White-Checkered finish.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=517\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-517\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Bojangles' Southern 500\" src=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/69b49c4e277c024d5fa85218bb2c63a3-getty-144263538-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/39vs51crews_rueger_d3a650716d55f7baa5d8f0f09e4b05da-getty-144263542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-518\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Bojangles' Southern 500\" src=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/39vs51crews_rueger_d3a650716d55f7baa5d8f0f09e4b05da-getty-144263542-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>And let&#8217;s hear it for the explosive Kurt Busch. What is this guy thinking??? \u00c2\u00a0He and Newman go spinning on lap 361. \u00c2\u00a0What started out a racing deal soon turned into a inter-team brawl! \u00c2\u00a0Kurt apparently needed to release some frustration and decided to do a burnout from his pit box after repairs and through Newman&#8217;s pit box where his crew was cleaning up after Newman&#8217;s repairs. \u00c2\u00a0 Unsurprisingly the endangered 39 team members were irate at being put into a potentially life-threatening situation. \u00c2\u00a0Rueger, gas man for the 39 crew, made his feelings known to the crew chief for the 51. \u00c2\u00a0Kurt&#8217;s team informed him, over the radio, that the 39 team members wanted to whoop his ass and explained why to the profanely shouting Busch. \u00c2\u00a0Busch then returned to pit road and managed to hit the 39 car after the race. \u00c2\u00a0Rueger was beside himself and headed over to the 51 car to relay his displeasure to Kurt. \u00c2\u00a0Crew members of both teams then spent time blocking for Kurt and Rueger. \u00c2\u00a0In the melee a NASCAR official tumbled onto the hood of a car. \u00c2\u00a0Eventually the warring factions were separated and called to the NASCAR hauler. \u00c2\u00a0Everyone is breathlessly awaiting NASCAR&#8217;s ruling on this incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/3a569bca97d0332caef58afaf25c5e88-getty-144263649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-519\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; border-width: 3px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" title=\"Bojangles' Southern 500\" src=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/3a569bca97d0332caef58afaf25c5e88-getty-144263649-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/3a569bca97d0332caef58afaf25c5e88-getty-144263649-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/3a569bca97d0332caef58afaf25c5e88-getty-144263649-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/3a569bca97d0332caef58afaf25c5e88-getty-144263649.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIMMIE WINS!!! \u00c2\u00a0Number 200 for Hendrick Motorsports!! The race was incredibly boring until about lap 312. \u00c2\u00a0Lots and lots and lots and lots of green flag laps. \u00c2\u00a01 Caution for someone blowing up around lap 172. \u00c2\u00a0Then more green flag laps. \u00c2\u00a0A real snooze-fest! Suddenly, around lap 312 the drivers seem to wake up and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/nascar-2012-race-11-darlington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NASCAR 2012 Race 11 Darlington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}