{"id":40057,"date":"2017-05-30T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=40057"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:37:29","slug":"this-week-in-motorsports-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-112\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"40058\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/this-week-in-motorsports-112\/unnamed-25-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/unnamed-25.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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