{"id":77796,"date":"2026-08-23T16:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/kyle-kirkwood-wins-freedom-250-indycar-race-after-trump-waves-the-green-flag\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:55:30","slug":"kyle-kirkwood-wins-freedom-250-indycar-race-after-trump-waves-the-green-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/kyle-kirkwood-wins-freedom-250-indycar-race-after-trump-waves-the-green-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Kirkwood wins Freedom 250 IndyCar race after Trump waves the green flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American driver wins in a dominant performance<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>DC Mayor Muriel Bowser served as grand marshal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kyle Kirkwood gave the Freedom 250 an American winner, racing to his second victory of the IndyCar season on the streets of downtown Washington in a dominant performance Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a race set up as part of the country\u2019s 250th birthday celebration, President Donald Trump gave drivers the green flag at the start and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser served as grand marshal. Kirkwood crossed the finish line in front of the Capitol 3.09 seconds ahead of Christian Lundgaard, after leading for 128 of a possible 147 laps.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/23\/kyle-kirkwood-freedom-250-indycar-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American driver wins in a dominant performance DC Mayor Muriel Bowser served as grand marshal Kyle Kirkwood gave the Freedom 250 an American winner, racing to his second victory of the IndyCar season on the streets of downtown Washington in a dominant performance Sunday. In a race set up as part of the country\u2019s 250th &#8230; <a title=\"Kyle Kirkwood wins Freedom 250 IndyCar race after Trump waves the green flag\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/kyle-kirkwood-wins-freedom-250-indycar-race-after-trump-waves-the-green-flag\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kyle Kirkwood wins Freedom 250 IndyCar race after Trump waves the green flag\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}