{"id":70132,"date":"2020-03-13T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=70132"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:15:57","slug":"update-nascar-to-postpone-its-race-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/update-nascar-to-postpone-its-race-events\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: NASCAR to Postpone its Race Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"70067\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nascar-to-hold-race-events-without-fans-in-attendance\/nascar-bar-mark\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,361\" 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=\"NASCAR-Bar-mark\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg\" alt=\"NASCAR, COVID-19\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a previous statement, NASCAR announced it would be having its future races without fans in attendance in response to COVID-19 concerns.\u00a0 NASCAR has now decided to go a bit further in regards to safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASCAR has decided to postpone the race events at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend and Homestead-Miami Speedway next weekend. We believe this decision is in the best interest of the safety and well-being of our fans, competitors, officials and everyone associated with our sport. We will continue to monitor this dynamic situation as we assess future race events.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In a previous statement, NASCAR announced it would be having its future races without fans in attendance in response to COVID-19 concerns.\u00a0 NASCAR has now decided to go a bit further in regards to safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":70067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082,3470,22],"tags":[3789,7514,7567,6428,127,41,1101,7586],"class_list":["post-70132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-atlanta-motor-speedway","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-homestead-miami-raceway","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-press-release-2","tag-races"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/NASCAR-Bar-mark-e1584036143287.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-ifa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70137,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70132\/revisions\/70137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}