{"id":27358,"date":"2013-09-12T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27358"},"modified":"2013-09-13T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:30:22","slug":"jeff-gordon-added-to-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27358","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gordon Added To Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gordonjeff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27360\" alt=\"Gordonjeff\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gordonjeff.jpg\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>JOLIET, Ill. (AP Sept 13, 2013) &#8211; NASCAR added Jeff Gordon to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field Friday, a stunning and unprecedented step in the fallout from at least two attempts to manipulate the results at the season-ending race at Richmond last weekend.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR Chairman Brian France expanded the field to 13 drivers for the first time since the format was implemented 10 years ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Front Row Motorsports asked for a deal from Penske Racing at Richmond and then helped make sure Penske&#8217;s Joey Logano made the Chase field by having one of its drivers, David Gilliland, slow down, according to an Associated Press review of radio communications.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 France said NASCAR could not determine a deal was made, but still believed the move was necessary and he placed both teams on probation the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0JOLIET, Ill. (AP Sept 13, 2013) &#8211; NASCAR added Jeff Gordon to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field Friday, a stunning and unprecedented step in the fallout from at least two attempts to manipulate the results at the season-ending race at Richmond last weekend. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NASCAR Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27363,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358\/revisions\/27363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}