{"id":1941553,"date":"2026-11-01T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941553"},"modified":"2026-11-02T01:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:52:17","slug":"kyle-larson-closes-in-on-nascar-championship-as-hendrick-teammate-william-byron-wins-at-martinsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941553","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson closes in on NASCAR championship as Hendrick teammate William Byron wins at Martinsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Larson salvaged a nearly disastrous Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, putting him on the cusp of his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series championship. With a ninth-place finish at Martinsville, Larson lost only six points off his massive lead in the championship and leads by 67 points over C&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/1d1cb-kyle-larson-closes-in-on-nascar-championship-as-hendrick-teammate-william-byron-wins-at-martinsville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Larson salvaged a nearly disastrous Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, putting him on the cusp of his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series championship. With a ninth-place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1941554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941553","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=1941553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941555,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941553\/revisions\/1941555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}