{"id":490282,"date":"2010-03-30T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=41978"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:30:31","slug":"rainout-recap-will-power-wins-irl-in-st-petersburg-denny-hamlin-wins-nascar-in-martinsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490282","title":{"rendered":"Rainout Recap: Will Power Wins IRL in St. Petersburg, Denny Hamlin Wins NASCAR in Martinsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 485px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/rainout-recap-will-power-wins-irl-in-st-petersburg-denny-hamlin-wins-nascar-in-martinsville\/will_power_2009_indy_500_pole_day\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Will_Power_2009_Indy_500_Pole_Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Will_Power_2009_Indy_500_Pole_Day\" width=\"475\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41981\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Manningmbd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Penske Racing\u2019s Will Power appears to be the IRL driver to beat this year, claiming his second victory in two races at Monday\u2019s IRL Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.  Monday\u2019s 10:00 AM start time was pushed back to allow the street circuit additional time to dry; it didn\u2019t appear to help much, as drivers ranging from Milka Duno to Dario Franchitti spun their cars on the wet pavement in the opening laps.  Power held off second place finisher Justin Wilson (Dreyer &#038; Reinbold Racing), winning the event by nearly one second.  Ryan Briscoe, Power\u2019s Penske teammate, claimed the last podium spot. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-41978\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 410px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/rainout-recap-will-power-wins-irl-in-st-petersburg-denny-hamlin-wins-nascar-in-martinsville\/400px-dennyhamlinaugust2007\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/400px-DennyHamlinAugust2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"400px-DennyHamlinAugust2007\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41980\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kim Phillips<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In NASCAR Sprint Cup racing, Denny Hamlin adopted a \u201cdrive it like you stole it\u201d approach to claim victory at Martinsville on Monday.  Despite leading 171 laps, a late race pit stop for tires forced Hamlin to claw his way up from ninth position with just four laps remaining.  Hamlin had worked his way up to fourth when a yellow flag brought out a green and white restart; after passing Ryan Newman for third, Hamlin got lucky when a \u201crubbing is racing\u201d duel between Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth took the two leaders out of contention.  Hamlin took the lead with and crossed the line for his second victory in a row at Martinsville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K9E4nGCofBBd98uHixcvW217qLc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K9E4nGCofBBd98uHixcvW217qLc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K9E4nGCofBBd98uHixcvW217qLc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K9E4nGCofBBd98uHixcvW217qLc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Manningmbd Penske Racing\u2019s Will Power appears to be the IRL driver to beat this year, claiming his second victory in two races at Monday\u2019s IRL Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Monday\u2019s 10:00 AM start time was pushed back to allow the street circuit additional time to dry; it didn\u2019t appear to help much, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}