{"id":703238,"date":"2010-03-29T03:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/first-indian-in-nascar-narain-karthikeyan-18591.html"},"modified":"2010-03-29T03:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:16:38","slug":"first-indian-in-nascar-narain-karthikeyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703238","title":{"rendered":"First Indian in NASCAR: Narain Karthikeyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.autoevolution.com\/images\/news\/first-indian-in-nascar-narain-karthikeyan-18591-3.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/>The first Indian to race in the Formula One (although not very successful), Narain Karthikeyan, is now at his second&#8230; first, after he put India on the NASCAR drivers&#8217; map this weekend, as he debuted, raced and finished the Kroger 250 race at the Martinsville Speedway. <\/p>\n<p> Karthikeyan managed a somewhat modest 13th place for the newly formed Starbeast Motorsports. Karthikeyan was on the lead lap until lap 200, when a contact with Clay Greenfield spun him around and left Karthikeyan unable to ge&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/first-indian-in-nascar-narain-karthikeyan-18591.html\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Indian to race in the Formula One (although not very successful), Narain Karthikeyan, is now at his second&#8230; first, after he put India on the NASCAR drivers&#8217; map this weekend, as he debuted, raced and finished the Kroger 250 race at the Martinsville Speedway. Karthikeyan managed a somewhat modest 13th place for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WWy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}