{"id":5643,"date":"2012-10-16T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2012-10-16T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:42:56","slug":"nascar-competition-changes-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Competition Changes, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nascarlogo445.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1055\" title=\"nascarlogo445\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nascarlogo445-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) &#8211; NASCAR has announced competition changes<br \/>\nfor 2013, including the elimination of the top 35 qualifying rule<br \/>\nand a reduction of the field size in the Nationwide Series.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starting next season, the top 35 cars in owners&#8217; points will no<br \/>\nlonger be guaranteed a spot in the Sprint Cup field. NASCAR will<br \/>\nuse a 36-6-1 format in which the fastest 36 cars make the race on<br \/>\nspeed.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The next six highest ranking cars in owners points not already<br \/>\nqualified then earn a starting spot, followed by the most recent<br \/>\neligible past champion driver.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Nationwide Series, NASCAR will only allow a maximum of 40<br \/>\ncars to race each week instead of 43. The change is to create a<br \/>\nsense of urgency among teams to make races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) &#8211; NASCAR has announced competition changes for 2013, including the elimination of the top 35 qualifying rule and a reduction of the field size in the Nationwide Series. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starting next season, the top 35 cars in owners&#8217; points will no longer be guaranteed a spot in [&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-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","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=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}