{"id":928,"date":"2015-03-08T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2015-04-12T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:10:34","slug":"%ef%bb%bf2015-nascar-sprint-cup-race-three-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/%ef%bb%bf2015-nascar-sprint-cup-race-three-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Three Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oops! I forgot about the NASCAR race. I was watching episodes of How It&#8217;s Made and pretty engrossed not realizing race time had arrived. I miss watching the pre-race shows. I used to enjoy the SpeedTV show on Friday, Trackside, and Race Day, and This Week In NASCAR, not to mention Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain. I would rush home on Thursday to watch hours of practice (on a good week), and on Friday for practice and qualifying from all three series, and sometimes ARCA. Hours and hours of motorsports programming on a dedicated\/diverse channel. It was tv Utopia and then it all fell apart eventually morphing into FoxSports(1|2). I&#8217;ve become unable to watch qualifying &#8211; which bums me out, because I adored watching qualifying, so I have no idea of the starting line-up or how things are this week. Since I have Uverse, the Xfinity race wasn&#8217;t available to me. I did see, on Good Morning America, that the district attorney decided there isn&#8217;t enough evidence supporting Patricia&#8217;s claims to move forward with charges against Kurt Busch. I&#8217;m glad to hear that and wish KuBu well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So it appears we&#8217;re at lap 71 of 207 (or maybe 267, or maybe 287). Green flag pit stops have started. Gotta find something with larger font to figure that out for certain.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out its 267 (I checked the NASCAR lap-by-lap).<\/p>\n<p>Two tire issues sent Jimmie to the garage for a number of laps after hitting the wall twice.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Edwards ran Kasey Kahne into the wall, and Kasey expressed his displeasure sending Carl to the garage for a while. They were around third and fourth when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick wins. <!-- 06:36:34 PM --><\/p>\n<p>Martin Truex finishes second and Dale Earnhardt Jr finishes third.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gordon got into the back of Jeb Burton who was slowing down due to Jimmie&#8217;s tire issues. There was nice video of him, after the race, apologizing to Jeb.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In NASCAR news this week:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/No-Charges-in-Kurt-Busch-Case.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">No Charges in Kurt Busch Case<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Kurt-Busch-Applies-for-Reinstatement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Busch Applies for Reinstatement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/racing\/nascar\/cup\/story\/_\/id\/12408045\/kurt-busch-agrees-nascar-terms-reinstatement-suspension\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Busch agrees to NASCAR terms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Kurt-Busch-Suspension-Remains.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Busch Suspension Remains<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/NASCAR-Answers-Kurt-Busch-Suspension-Questions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Answers Busch Suspension Questions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Jeff-Gordon-Wins-First-Las-Vegas-Motor-Speedway-Pole.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Rolls to First Vegas Pole<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Jeff-Gordon-and-David-Ragan-Forced-to-Backup-Cars-for-Kobalt-400.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon, Ragan Forced to Backup Cars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/racing\/nascar\/story\/_\/id\/12435849\/jeff-gordon-nascar-discuss-safety-measures\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Gordon to meet with NASCAR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Brett-Moffitt-to-Drive-for-Front-Row-Motorsports-for-Three-Races.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Moffitt to Drive No. 34 for Front Row<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Brian-Vickers-Back-On-Track.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Vickers Back On Track<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrn.com\/Race-Series\/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup\/News\/Articles\/2015\/03\/Ryan-Dubois-Named-General-Manager-of-BK-Racing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Dubois Named BK Racing General Manager<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/nascar\/story\/2015-03-08\/eldora-speedway-website-hacked-isis-islamic-state-isis-tony-stewart-nascar-camping-world-truck-series\" target=\"_blank\">Website for Tony Stewart-owned speedway hacked with message referencing ISIS<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/nascar\/story\/2015-03-08\/nascar-sprint-cup-starting-lineup-las-vegas-carl-edwards-rules-changes-lower-downforce\" target=\"_blank\">Want better racing? Carl Edwards pushes downforce reduction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Next Race: Phoenix<\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>GO 48!!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops! I forgot about the NASCAR race. I was watching episodes of How It&#8217;s Made and pretty engrossed not realizing race time had arrived. I miss watching the pre-race shows. I used to enjoy the SpeedTV show on Friday, Trackside, and Race Day, and This Week In NASCAR, not to mention Wind Tunnel with Dave &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/%ef%bb%bf2015-nascar-sprint-cup-race-three-las-vegas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Three Las Vegas&#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-928","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\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briari.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}