{"id":38756,"date":"2017-04-24T17:12:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=38756"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T21:56:44","slug":"this-week-in-motorsports-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-107\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-107\/prerace_release___duck_river_smoky_mtn_rw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PRERACE_RELEASE___Duck_River_Smoky_Mtn_RW.png\" data-orig-size=\"650,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PRERACE_RELEASE___Duck_River_Smoky_Mtn_RW\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PRERACE_RELEASE___Duck_River_Smoky_Mtn_RW-300x185.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PRERACE_RELEASE___Duck_River_Smoky_Mtn_RW.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38757 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PRERACE_RELEASE___Duck_River_Smoky_Mtn_RW.png\" 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