{"id":1338,"date":"2018-11-04T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2018-11-04T19:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:14:39","slug":"2018-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-thirty-four-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/2018-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-thirty-four-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Thirty-Four Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After travelling to Florida hoping for warmer weather at the beach &#8211; it is warmer than Atlanta, but extremely windy and the wind is chilly. That said &#8211; I&#8217;m at the Beach, Hooray!!! Tuned in to the race once we were in the hotel room. It was 17 laps from the end of the first stage and appeared to be a typical Texas\/typical 2018 race. We went and grabbed a bit to eat. Between traveling and the time change we&#8217;re a bit off schedule. Back in the room with 14 laps to go and it&#8217;s still looking like a typical 2018\/typical Texas race. It doesn&#8217;t appear we&#8217;ve missed much. You know its tough trying to find NASCAR on the radio while traveling.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bunny hasn&#8217;t gotten Sirius\/XM running in her new ride, so we were scanning stations for a while. Eventually we settled on some classic rock and gave up the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Caution on lap 331 of 334 for an incident between Joey Gase (51) and Daniel Suarez (19) so we&#8217;re going into overtime. The stages were 85-85-164.<\/p>\n<p>Harvick (4) and Blaney (12) will restart up front with Kyle Larson (42) and Joey Logano (22) behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Harvick went around Blaney like he was standing still and takes the white flag.<\/p>\n<p><!--06:44:00 PM-->Kevin Harvick runs away from the field to see the checkered flag first.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this was a race at some point, but everything I saw looked like a parade behind Kevin Harvick. It&#8217;s that &#8211; and the lack of beach &#8211; that convinced me to not take my birthday trip to the Texas race.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Motorsport News:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/25173783\/f1-big-money-championship-yet-decided\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1&#8217;s big-money championship yet to be decided<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kickinthetires.net\/index.php\/2018\/11\/04\/kyle-benjamin-playing-the-waiting-game-for-2019-ride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Benjamin playing the waiting game for 2019 ride<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Next Race: Phoenix<\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>GO 48!!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After travelling to Florida hoping for warmer weather at the beach &#8211; it is warmer than Atlanta, but extremely windy and the wind is chilly. That said &#8211; I&#8217;m at the Beach, Hooray!!! Tuned in to the race once we were in the hotel room. It was 17 laps from the end of the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/2018-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-race-thirty-four-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race Thirty-Four Texas&#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-1338","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\/1338","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=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}