{"id":13173,"date":"2014-05-10T23:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=13173"},"modified":"2014-05-10T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T03:52:22","slug":"jeff-gordon-wins-at-kansas-results-for-the-5-hour-energy-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/05\/10\/jeff-gordon-wins-at-kansas-results-for-the-5-hour-energy-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gordon wins at Kansas, Results for the 5-Hour Energy 400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13180\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/jeffgordon.jpg\" alt=\"jeffgordon\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/jeffgordon.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/05\/jeffgordon-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Gordon\u00a0won Saturday night&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway\u00a0to all but ensure himself a spot in the Sprint Chase. The win is the 89th in the career of Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet SS\u00a0crossed the start finish line ahead of Kevin Harvick\u00a0and Kasey Kahne\u00a0to claim the win in the5-Hour Energy 400. Gordon\u00a0led nine\u00a0of 267\u00a0laps around the 1.5-mile oval located in Kansas City, KS.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s running of the 5-Hour Energy\u00a0\u00a0400 began with Kevin Harvick\u00a0on the pole. The start of the race was delayed by over 30 minutes due to weather but once it went green it was Harvick who showed he had the car to beat. By midway in the race Joey Logano had moved to the front of the field with Kasey Kahne and Tony Stewart behind him.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/product_ad_widget\/paw.php?pawid=87331&amp;pw=157431&amp;output=js\"><\/script><br \/>\n Danica Patrick had a strong race moving into\u00a0third with 95 to go. On a different pit strategy Jimmie Johnson went to the front of the field while among those who had pitted Jeff Gordon got around\u00a0Harvick. With nine to go Gordon went to the front of the field after the last of those who were on different pit sequence pitted.<\/p>\n<h2>Results for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at\u00a0Kansas<\/h2>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Jeff Gordon<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harvick<\/li>\n<li>Kasey Kahne<\/li>\n<li>Joey Logano<\/li>\n<li>Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Carl Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Danica Patrick<\/li>\n<li>Aric Almirola<\/li>\n<li>Jimmie Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Matt Kenseth<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Newman<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Larson<\/li>\n<li>Brad Keselowski<\/li>\n<li>Brain Vickers<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Busch<\/li>\n<li>Greg Biffle<\/li>\n<li>Paul Menard<\/li>\n<li>Denny Hamlin<\/li>\n<li>Austin Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Tony Stewart<\/li>\n<li>Martin Truex Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Clint Bowyer<\/li>\n<li>Marcos Ambrose<\/li>\n<li>Michael Annett<\/li>\n<li>Casey Mears<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Balney<\/li>\n<li>Cole Whitt<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Busch<\/li>\n<li>AJ Allmendinger<\/li>\n<li>Joe Nemechek<\/li>\n<li>Reed Sorenson<\/li>\n<li>Josh Wise<\/li>\n<li>Travis Kvapil<\/li>\n<li>Alex Bowman<\/li>\n<li>Justin Allgaier<\/li>\n<li>David Gilliland<\/li>\n<li>Jamie McMurray<\/li>\n<li>Timmy Hill<\/li>\n<li>J.J. Yeley<\/li>\n<li>David Ragan<\/li>\n<li>Landon Cassill<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Truex<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Gordon\u00a0won Saturday night&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway\u00a0to all but ensure himself a spot in the Sprint Chase. The win is the 89th in the career of Gordon. The driver of the No. 24 Axalta Chevrolet SS\u00a0crossed the start finish line ahead of Kevin Harvick\u00a0and Kasey Kahne\u00a0to claim the win in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,304,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-13173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-jeff-gordon","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13173"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}