{"id":39329,"date":"2017-05-08T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=39329"},"modified":"2017-05-08T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:15:10","slug":"this-week-in-motorsports-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-109\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39330\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-109\/twim\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Twim.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,466\" 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=\"Twim\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Twim-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Twim.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39330 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Twim.jpg\" alt=\"Twim\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Twim.jpg 700w, 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