{"id":92869,"date":"2022-08-01T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/things-got-weird-at-nascar-s-indianapolis-race-as-one-driver-took-a-wild-shortcut-and-nearly-finished-first"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T15:47:19","slug":"things-got-weird-at-nascar-s-indianapolis-race-as-one-driver-took-a-wild-shortcut-and-nearly-finished-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/things-got-weird-at-nascar-s-indianapolis-race-as-one-driver-took-a-wild-shortcut-and-nearly-finished-first","title":{"rendered":"Things got weird at NASCAR&#8217;s Indianapolis race, as one driver took a wild shortcut and nearly finished first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Chastain left the track and took an access road shortcut in overtime at the Indy road course. NBC One of NASCAR&#8217;s most controversial drivers took a shortcut during overtime at the Indianapolis road course. The move gave Chastain the lead, causing a lot of confusion. Tyler Reddick eventually won the race, and Chastain was penalized for the leaving the track. Ross Chastain once again finds himself in the middle of a NASCAR controversy, this time for taking a shortcut. During the final restart in overtime at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, Chastain, who was fourth during the restart, intentionally left the track and used an access road shortcut to take the lead with two laps to go. The move caused confusion as even the announcers were unsure if it was legal and if Chastain (1) would be penalized. &#8212;NBC Sports (@NBCSports) August 1, 2022 Tyler Reddick (8) eventually moved past Chastain and picked up the win. Chastain, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Chastain took a shortcut during overtime, leading to a lot of confusion over whether it was legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[374,241,58],"class_list":["post-92869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}