{"id":8603,"date":"2014-10-20T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T23:42:02","slug":"earnhardt-jr-eliminated-from-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/earnhardt-jr-eliminated-from-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnhardt Jr. Eliminated from Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/earnhardt-jr-eliminated-from-chase\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1023,582\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Chen, Andrew&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1413823219&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=\"Geico 500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2-300x170.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8604\" alt=\"Geico 500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8217;s chase for the championship was cut short on Sunday at the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway when a multi-car accident sent him back to the pits with a damaged car with only two laps left.<\/p>\n<p>This season has proven to be a roller coaster ride as the list of drivers that have been eliminated from title contention reads like a &#8220;who&#8217;s who&#8221; of NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch and now Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski manages to advance to the Eliminator Round with a win at Talladega, one of the toughest tracks on the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/en_us\/news-media\/articles\/2014\/10\/19\/dale-earnhardt-jr-talladega-fails-to-advance-in-chase-sprint-cup.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#8217;s chase for the championship was cut short on Sunday at the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":8604,"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":[3470],"tags":[1435,1434,127],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chase-for-the-cup","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-nascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dale-earnhardt-jr-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","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=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8605,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}