{"id":357649,"date":"2025-08-20T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=357649"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:00:10","slug":"metro-is-your-best-ride-to-nascar-for-the-enjoy-illinois-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/metro-is-your-best-ride-to-nascar-for-the-enjoy-illinois-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro is Your Best Ride to NASCAR for the Enjoy Illinois 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When tens of thousands of race fans try to navigate the traffic and crowded parking lots at the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR Cup Series event at World Wide Technology Raceway on Sunday, September 7, you could be one of the smart ones and take advantage of our <strong>free<\/strong> <strong>Metro Transit shuttle service &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>and avoid the crowds, traffic and headaches!<\/p>\n<p>Quick, comfortable and convenient, our MetroBus shuttles will take you straight to the racetrack from one of two pick-up locations, the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/azrK8M1wFrP8Pdu67\">Emerson Park MetroLink Station<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/mWYAfxzcAPkdap34A\">Old Vatterott College<\/a>, at no cost. Shuttles will also be running from the Emerson Park MetroLink Station on Saturday, Sept. 6, for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Race.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwtraceway.com\/shuttle-service\/\">World Wide Technology Raceway<\/a> website for shuttle times and other details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-357650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nascar_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A pace car leads NASCARS down to front stretch of World Wide Technology Raceway.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nascar_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nascar_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nascar_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nascar_1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nascar_1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When tens of thousands of race fans try to navigate the traffic and crowded parking lots at the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR Cup Series event at World Wide Technology Raceway on Sunday, September 7, you could be one of the smart ones and take advantage of our free Metro Transit shuttle service &#8212;\u00a0and avoid the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}