{"id":1177,"date":"2017-08-13T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2017-08-13T18:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:31:34","slug":"2017-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-twenty-three-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/2017-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-twenty-three-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Twenty-Three Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Truex Jr won his 15th stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Caution on lap 140 of 200 as Kasey Kahne slammed the outside wall and Daniel Suarez popped the inside wall. That was an ugly hit into the wall, then Daniel lifted Kasey&#8217;s rear wheels off the ground as he smashed into Kasey then spun down into the inside wall, twice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kasey seemed to think he was clear but caught Daniel&#8217;s left front and slammed into the wall and since Daniel was right there he could do nothing but smash into his left rear.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to their post care center interviews Kasey felt he was going forward and Daniel was going backward and he doesn&#8217;t understand how they hit. He expected them to run side by side. Daniel felt that he gave Kasey enough room though Kasey was crowding him and Kasey hit him.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting on lap 148 of 200.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Bowyer seems to have a tire rub on lap 150 of 200 as we&#8217;re seeing a little smoke from the right front of his car. There seems to be a bit of damage on the right front also. Clint&#8217;s slowing down on lap 152 of 200 and heading into the pits.<\/p>\n<p>Caution is out on lap 186 of 200 for debris on the track. Apparently the drivers had been calling for a caution for a while. Joey &#8216;Squinty-Douchey&#8217; Logano came in just before the caution due to right front damage.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting on lap 191 of 200. Truex will lead them to the green with his teammate Erik &#8220;Da Brat&#8221; Jones alongside.<\/p>\n<p>Caution on lap 196 of 200 for wreck involving Michael McDowell and Paul Menard.<\/p>\n<p>Overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Red flag is out as the clean up continues. After 5:42 the caution is out.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting with Truex leading. They went four wide into turn one as lots of folks went around Erik &#8220;Da Brat&#8221; Jones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kutey Kyle&#8221; Larson comes out of that in the lead.<\/p>\n<p>White flag &#8211; &#8220;Kutey Kyle&#8221; Larson is still leading<\/p>\n<p><!--06:06:05 PM--> Kyle Larson wins.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Trevor Bayne on his fifth place finish<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Chris Buescher who finished sixth<\/p>\n<p>What a sucky race. I miss the good Michigan races of days gone by.<\/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\/08\/Matt-DiBenedetto-Returning-to-Go-Fas-Racing-in-2018.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DiBenedetto Returning to Go Fas Racing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/08\/Jimmie-Johnson-and-Kasey-Kahne-to-Backup-Cars-at-Michigan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnson, Kahne to Backup Cars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2017\/08\/Kasey-Kahne-Wants-to-Stay-in-Cup-Series.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kahne Wants to Stay in Cup<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-XFINITY\/News\/Articles\/2017\/08\/Sam-Hornish-Jr-Masters-Mid-Ohio-Sports-Car-Course.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hornish Masters Mid-Ohio<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Camping-World-Trucks\/News\/Articles\/2017\/08\/Darrell-Wallace-Jr-Wins-at-Michigan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wallace Wins in Truck Return<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Next Race: Bristol<\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>GO 48!!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Truex Jr won his 15th stage of the season. Caution on lap 140 of 200 as Kasey Kahne slammed the outside wall and Daniel Suarez popped the inside wall. That was an ugly hit into the wall, then Daniel lifted Kasey&#8217;s rear wheels off the ground as he smashed into Kasey then spun down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/2017-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-twenty-three-michigan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Twenty-Three Michigan&#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-1177","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\/1177","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=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}