{"id":5138,"date":"2018-06-30T18:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2018-06-30T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:44:56","slug":"eric-bridger-chases-second-championship-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/06\/30\/eric-bridger-chases-second-championship-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bridger chases second championship and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Bridger<\/strong> ended Friday night\u2019s 305 Knoxville Cup race with a fourth place finish.\u00a0<\/span>It was the first night in five races for Bridger that didn\u2019t end with him hoisting a trophy in victory lane, but it would be hard to tell by talking to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Bridger chases second championship and more<\/h1>\n

\u201c[We were] pretty good,\u201d<\/em> Bridger said. \u201cWe drew 8 for the invert and that\u2019s going to happen. We started seventh there and got a pretty good start from there. I just tried to pass as many cars as I could.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bridger would finish ahead of Ryan Leavitt<\/strong>, who sits second in the point standings, and extend his points lead a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re leading now, I think we extended it to over 120, so that\u2019s pretty good, “<\/em> Bridger said. “Going into the month of July, [I view it as] your one big month and that\u2019s about it. You have two more races in August after that.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bridger’s four wins in a row this season helped to bring his total to a whopping eight career victories at the track in 305’s. That mark is three away from tying the record of 11. Although, Bridger’s eyes aren’t focused on the all-time wins record.<\/p>\n

Championship Aspirations<\/h2>\n

\u201c[The wins record] would be nice, but I just want to take care of the championship first and then go from there,”<\/em> Bridger said. “We\u2019re already pretty much higher up there than I thought we\u2019d ever <\/em>be, so that\u2019s pretty cool as it is.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bridger is the defending Knoxville Cup 305 series champion, so taking care of the championship is no unfamiliar task. However, a move up to the 360 division is a different story.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll try,”<\/em> Bridger said. “It\u2019s all going to be about money and sponsorship. The wins help to see what we can do.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>We\u2019ll just see what happens. <\/em>There\u2019s always opportunities for different rides, but <\/em>there coming less and less now a days.” <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bridger emphasized the money aspect of the situation and even mentioned running for his own family’s team next season in the middle division at the track. “[We’ll] see if we can get a couple of sponsorships and run our family car next year,”<\/em> Bridger said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 305’s have Saturday of this week off, but will return to the track next week during Knoxville’s weekly racing series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty happy with how the whole night went, I\u2019m ready for next week,”<\/em> Bridger said.
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Eric Bridger ended Friday night\u2019s 305 Knoxville Cup race with a fourth place finish.\u00a0It was the first night in five races for Bridger that didn\u2019t end with him hoisting a trophy in victory lane, but it would be hard to tell by talking to him. Eric Bridger chases second championship and more \u201c[We were] pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":5051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"399","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[962,600,957],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-featured","tag-eric-bridger","tag-knoxville-cup","tag-knoxville-raceway"],"modified_by":"Sudha Sundar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}