{"id":169537,"date":"2025-09-26T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169537\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:06:07","slug":"derek-white-in-crash-at-nascar-the-eastern-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169537\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek White in crash at NASCAR \u2013 The Eastern Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI came around turn two and I just got out of the sticky part of the groove. I brushed it against the wall, and I had a lot of damage on the side of the truck,\u201d said White.<\/p>\n<p>They repaired that damage into Saturday morning, making the race. After a few early retirements from other drivers, White was running at the tail end of the field still on the lead lap, when something went very wrong with his truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gas pedal got stuck right to the floor, I tried to stop it but no luck, the gas pedal was binding on a bolt that was under the dash that we could not see. There was no way I would have been able to pull it with my foot, so I just hit the brakes and slid about 200 feet until the tires blew up,\u201d said White.<\/p>\n<p>White was able to get out of the truck by himself, but he said that he has badly bruised ribs as a result of the crash, and that puts his potential start on October 3 at the Charlotte Roval &#8211; a road course that combines the oval and an infield track at Charlotte Motor Speedway &#8211; in jeopardy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI came around turn two and I just got out of the sticky part of the groove. I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-169537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}