{"id":1943432,"date":"2026-11-10T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943432"},"modified":"2026-11-10T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:24:45","slug":"kyle-busch-posthumously-voted-the-most-popular-driver-in-the-nascar-cup-series-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943432","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch posthumously voted the most popular driver in the NASCAR Cup Series for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late Kyle Busch was recognized as the Cup Series\u2019 most popular driver at NASCAR\u2019s season-ending awards banquet. Busch\u2019s widow, Samantha, was on hand to accept the posthumous trophy at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. It was the first time Busch was honored with the award in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/1f673-kyle-busch-posthumously-voted-the-most-popular-driver-in-the-nascar-cup-series-for-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Kyle Busch was recognized as the Cup Series\u2019 most popular driver at NASCAR\u2019s season-ending awards banquet. Busch\u2019s widow, Samantha, was on hand to accept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"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-1943432","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\/1943432","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=1943432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943433,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943432\/revisions\/1943433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}