{"id":1929141,"date":"2026-08-22T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929141"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:33:57","slug":"alex-palou-tops-qualifying-for-the-freedom-250-in-washington-his-7th-indycar-pole-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929141","title":{"rendered":"Alex Palou tops qualifying for the Freedom 250 in Washington, his 7th IndyCar pole of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Palou has won his seventh pole of the season, topping qualifying for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington. The 29-year-old from Barcelona leads the IndyCar standings by 133 points with four races remaining. If that lead reaches 163 at the end of Sunday\u2019s race, he\u2019d clinch his fifth serie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/0c873-alex-palou-tops-qualifying-for-the-freedom-250-in-washington-his-7th-indycar-pole-of-the-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Palou has won his seventh pole of the season, topping qualifying for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington. The 29-year-old from Barcelona leads the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929142,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929141\/revisions\/1929142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}