{"id":154,"date":"2020-08-29T05:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/?p=154"},"modified":"2020-08-29T23:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:56:40","slug":"friday-at-road-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/race-updates\/friday-at-road-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday at Road America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today was a day with highs and some impactful lows.\u00a0 The kind of lows that happen in racing. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story started Thursday, in practice when car #91 lost an engine, forcing Jeff to run both Sprint and Sprint X races in car #191.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday started with rain, lots of rain.&nbsp; The kind of rain that causes the series to evaluate the validity or having cars on track.&nbsp; Qualifying for sprint was an untimed event.&nbsp; Too much water for the timing equipment to function?&nbsp; The grid would be determined by yesterday\u2019s practice.&nbsp; SprintX quali one was wet but ok, and Jeff Burton had a good run, but when the second drivers headed out the rain had intensified to the point it was quickly red-flagged.&nbsp; Vesko\u2019s starting position would be determined by his stellar P2 in practice yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sprint race one started wet but Paul Terry in the #59 Aston Martin had a very strong showing from the start.&nbsp; As the weather moved on and the track dried, the pace picked up. Paul and Jeff were both moving forward.&nbsp; A slippery track sent Jeff for a \u201cspin and continue\u201d starting his run&nbsp; over from the back.&nbsp; He was rapidly moving forward when unfortunate contact near the kink sent his #191 Aston hard into the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SprintX race one started without the 91 of Jeff and Vesko, but saw a solid run toward the front with starting driver John Allen in the #16 Mercedes.&nbsp; Kris WIlson took over during the stop and continued the push forward in a very fast field, finishing up P3 in class.&nbsp; More hardware for the #16 roll tide AMG.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can the team build one car from two?&nbsp; Stay tuned. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a day with highs and some impactful lows.\u00a0 The kind of lows that happen in racing. . . The story started Thursday, in practice when car #91 lost an engine, forcing Jeff to run both Sprint and Sprint X races in car #191. Friday started with rain, lots of rain.&nbsp; The kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[37,54,3,63,5,34,7],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race-updates","tag-amg","tag-aston-martin","tag-gt4","tag-gt4-america","tag-rearden","tag-rearden-racing","tag-sro-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reardenracing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}