{"id":785,"date":"2007-08-12T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T22:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2007-08-12T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T03:51:00","slug":"said-to-drive-21-in-centurion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Said To Drive #21 in Centurion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/senglen.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/senglen.png','popup','width=228,height=89,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/senglen-tm.jpg\" height=\"39\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Senglen\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad&#8217;s own <strong>NASCAR<\/strong> driver <strong>Boris Said<\/strong> (of the <strong>No Fear<\/strong> team) was in the process of sitting out Sunday&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglen.com\/news\/track_news\/534339.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centurion<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglen.com\/news\/track_news\/534339.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boats at the Glen<\/a><\/strong> race thanks to a qualifying &#8220;rain-out&#8221; at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watkins Glen International<\/a><\/strong> when Said reportedly ran into #21 car driver <strong>Bill Elliot<\/strong> in the garage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hey man, you should be driving my car,&#8221; Elliott said to Said, who was locked out of Sunday&#8217;s Centurion Boats at the Glen when qualifying was rained out Friday. As he walked to his Busch car, Said smiled and responded, &#8220;Sure, no problem, I&#8217;ll drive&#8221; . . . Elliott marched into the <strong>Wood Brothers\/JTG Racing<\/strong> hauler and asked team co-owners <strong>Eddie<\/strong> and <strong>Len Wood<\/strong> if they would allow him to give up his seat in the No. 21 Ford to Said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elliot believes Said will be able to lift the number 21 car up in the rankings if he has a strong finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2007-08-11-elliott-said-glen_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s own NASCAR driver Boris Said (of the No Fear team) was in the process of sitting out Sunday&#8217;s Centurion Boats at the Glen race thanks to a qualifying &#8220;rain-out&#8221; at Watkins Glen International when Said reportedly ran into #21 car driver Bill Elliot in the garage. &#8220;Hey man, you should be driving my car,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}