{"id":757146,"date":"2019-04-25T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=757146"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:39:03","slug":"dunleavy-in-the-drivers-seat-like-a-nascar-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=757146","title":{"rendered":"Dunleavy: In the driver&#8217;s seat, like a NASCAR pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-the-driver-s-seat-like-a-nascar-pro\/18347888\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/voices\/2019\/04\/25\/18347893\/brad-DMID1-5il66u6q6-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"WRAL photojournalist Brad Simmons ready to ride at Charlotte Motor Speedway\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hours before the Hurricanes advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, photojournalist Brad Simmons and I got to race (yes, they let me) around Charlotte Motor Speedway. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-the-driver-s-seat-like-a-nascar-pro\/18347888\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/in-the-driver-s-seat-like-a-nascar-pro\/18347888\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Dunleavy: In the driver&#039;s seat, like a NASCAR pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours before the Hurricanes advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, photojournalist Brad Simmons and I got to race (yes, they let me)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canes","category-featured-stories","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757146","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=757146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910630,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757146\/revisions\/1910630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}