{"id":1285,"date":"2018-07-14T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2018-07-14T22:41:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T02:41:14","slug":"2018-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-nineteen-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/2018-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-nineteen-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Nineteen Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh, Kentucky, usually boring, hard for me to imagine it will be anything else. 80-80-107 laps for the stages this evening. Kutey Kyle Larson is headed to the back of the field for missing driver intros. Martin Truex Jr will lead the field to the green flag.<\/p>\n<p>By the third lap they&#8217;re basically single file.<\/p>\n<p>Green flag pit stops are underway on lap 42 of 267.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Truex Jr wins stage one.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alex Bowman loses and tire and brings out the caution on lap 112.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Truex Jr wins stage two.<\/p>\n<p>J.J. Yeley goes up in smoke and goes around the wall a bit bringing out the caution around lap 205 of 267.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s keeping the window net up and seems to be trying to get them to give the car a push.<\/p>\n<p>Restarting on lap 224 of 267.<\/p>\n<p>On lap 227 of 267 a sprinkler has come on in the infield and is wetting the pit lane currently.<\/p>\n<p>The guys on the radio are mentioning some on-track action, but unfortunately the main picture is a side view of a driver driving and the little box has the on-track action so I couldn&#8217;t see what they were describing about my favorite driver. I&#8217;ve seen people drive &#8211; still not interesting.<\/p>\n<p>With 32 laps to go in the race the PRN guys are telling us how many points people are going to gain in this race. I guess they&#8217;re saying its not worth watching the race to the end since its going to remain as-is for the rest of the run. Bunny says that&#8217;s no way to sell a race.<\/p>\n<p><!--10:28:02 PM-->Martin Truex Jr mercifully crosses the finish line to put an end to this snoozer of a &#8216;race&#8217;. He led 174 of 267 laps. Not exactly a competitive race.<\/p>\n<p>He jumped on the door of the car and it began rolling. He jumped off and it went a bit away and stopped &#8211; like it was remotely controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Typical boring Kentucky night race.<\/p>\n<h3>Next Race: Loudon<\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>GO 48!!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh, Kentucky, usually boring, hard for me to imagine it will be anything else. 80-80-107 laps for the stages this evening. Kutey Kyle Larson is headed to the back of the field for missing driver intros. Martin Truex Jr will lead the field to the green flag. By the third lap they&#8217;re basically single file. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/2018-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-nineteen-kentucky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Nineteen Kentucky&#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-1285","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\/1285","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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}