{"id":1148,"date":"2017-05-29T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2017-05-29T01:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T05:00:42","slug":"2017-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-twelve-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/2017-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-twelve-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Twelve Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen on their one two finish in today&#8217;s Monaco Gran Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Takumo Sato on his first Indy 500 win.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Ryan &#8216;Son&#8217; Blaney on winning yesterday&#8217;s Xfinity race.<\/p>\n<p>Stages are 100-100-100-100 for this race. There will be a competition caution at lap 30. KHarv will lead the field to the green flag.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The chorus that did the national anthem were awesome. Wonderful version. The rendition of Taps was fantastic. The bagpipes doing amazing grace were lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Lap 1 of 400 is underway and a blue sky with some fluffy white clouds. The sun is still shining, but part of the track is in shade. They&#8217;ve put some &#8216;sticky stuff&#8217; on the high side of the track to try to give the drivers more racing grooves to work with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing the Charlotte area must have gotten hit by storms like the Atlanta area did this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Caution on lap 20 of 400 . Chase Elliott, and ;It&#8217; wrecked. Jeffrey Earnhardt seemed to blow up, then Keselowski plowed into the back of Chase Elliott who was on fire. Something came off Jeffrey&#8217;s car and apparently Chase hit the debris and it damaged his car and started a fire under the hood. Keselowski said he got into the oil and just slid into Chase.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR is going to let this caution serve as the competition caution.<\/p>\n<p>PRN is saying &#8216;Lil Dude &#8216;Danica Patrick&#8217; also got some damage in that incident. &#8216;Da Brat&#8217; Erik Jones also hit the debris and has some damage.<\/p>\n<p>KyBu won stage one.<\/p>\n<p>Caution lap 142 for Matti Di visiting the wall,<\/p>\n<p>The red flag is out for lightning in the area on lap 147. And there&#8217;s the rain.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers have been recalled to their cars. There&#8217;s water standing under the cars on pit road, so they will have to move the cars so it can be dried after a one hour forty minute red flag. The cars are rolling back onto the track under caution.<\/p>\n<p>Caution on lap 174 of 400 for &#8216;Lil Dude cutting a right side tire and visited the wall..<\/p>\n<p>Truex wins stage 2,<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Cope leaves the track on lap 227 with smoke trailing his car.<\/p>\n<p>Lap 245 caution is out for Kevin Harvick and Kasey Kahne getting into oil laid down by Ty Dillon who blew up. Kasey may have had a left rear tire down sending him into the wall. Kutey Kyle Larson scraped the wall also. Kasey Kahne damaged Trevor Bayne a bit when he hit the wall in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Truex Jr just tied DW&#8217;s record of leading the most laps in three consecutive Coca-Cola 600s.<\/p>\n<p>Caution on lap 192 of 400 for a blown right front tire by Kutey Kyle Larson.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting on lap 297. Stinkhouse (Ricky Stenhouse) leads the field to green after staying out. Denny Hamlin wins the race off pit road.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin wins stage three.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting with 95 to go and Hamlin leading them to the green. Denny fell backwards through the field quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Caution with 72 to go for &#8216;Lil Dude (Danica Patrick) hitting the wall again. The right front is down by the time she gets into her pit box.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting with 67 laps to go. KyBu will lead them to the green flag.<\/p>\n<p>Green flag pit stops with 32 laps to go as the leaders &#8211; Truex, KyBu and Kenseth come in.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody besides me bothered by Toyota turning Jan into a hoochie mama? She had been a woman working in a Toyota dealership &#8211; helpful and knowledgeable. In the most recent commercial she&#8217;s wearing heels, a short skirt and dancing for no apparent reason. She went from being a valuable and valued employee known for her customer service chops to dancing decoration no longer in need of a brain it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmie is out of fuel with two to go. Frankenstein (Austin Dillon) inherits the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon wins <!--12:24:25 AM--> He&#8217;s working with a new crew chief having dumped Slugger Labbe earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Dale Earnhardt Jr on his tenth place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Frankenstein tried to do a burn out and the car ran out of gas pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The team pushes the car to victory lane, though the driver isn&#8217;t bothering to help. Guess its good to be the owner&#8217;s grandson and too good to work with the team. They have that car rolling at a pretty good clip.<\/p>\n<p>Boring race overall and thoroughly disappointing\/gimmicked finish. Fuel mileage races are generally not very interesting to watch.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NASCAR News:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Stewart-Haas-Racing-and-Natures-Bakery-Reconcile.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHR and Nature&#8217;s Bakery Reconcile<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Kyle-Busch-Looking-for-Charlotte-Sweep.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Busch Looking for Charlotte Sweep<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Kevin-Harvick-Wins-Pole-for-Coca-Cola-600.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coca-Cola 600 Pole to Harvick<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Ryan-Blaney-Still-Seeking-First-Win.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blaney Still Seeking First Win<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Jimmie-Johnson-In-a-Happy-Place.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnson In a Happy Place<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Steel-Parade-Arrives-at-Phoenix-Raceway.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steel Parade Arrives at Phoenix Raceway<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-XFINITY\/News\/Articles\/2017\/05\/Ryan-Blaney-Wins-at-Charlotte.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">High Five for Blaney in Xfinity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Next Race: Dover<\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>GO 48!!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen on their one two finish in today&#8217;s Monaco Gran Prix. Congratulations to Takumo Sato on his first Indy 500 win. Congrats to Ryan &#8216;Son&#8217; Blaney on winning yesterday&#8217;s Xfinity race. Stages are 100-100-100-100 for this race. There will be a competition caution at lap 30. KHarv will lead &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/2017-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-twelve-charlotte\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Twelve Charlotte&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-sports","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}