{"id":13956,"date":"2014-07-04T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T20:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=13956"},"modified":"2014-07-04T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:02:27","slug":"dakoda-armstrong-wins-nationwide-series-pole-at-daytona-qualifying-results-for-firecraker-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/07\/04\/dakoda-armstrong-wins-nationwide-series-pole-at-daytona-qualifying-results-for-firecraker-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakoda Armstrong wins Nationwide Series pole at Daytona, qualifying results for Firecraker 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13965\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/dakodaarmstrong.jpg\" alt=\"dakodaarmstrong\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/dakodaarmstrong.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/07\/dakodaarmstrong-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dakoda Armstrong\u00a0won the pole for Friday\u00a0nights NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International\u00a0Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the No.43 Ford Mustang\u00a0was the fastest during qualifying and will lead a field of 40 cars to the green flag for the start of the Subway Firecracker 250 at the 2.5-mile Daytona track. Rain forced qualifying to be shorted to just over 17 minutes of the first round.,<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of the race\u00a0will air on ESPN\u00a0beginning at 7:30\u00a0pm ET with the green flag set to wave at 7:46 pm ET. The event will consist of 100 laps making up 250\u00a0miles.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenseth won this race a year ago. Regan Smith won the season opening Nationwide Series race in February. And your useless stat is that\u00a0both drivers started 19th.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #292f33;\">Dibenedetto, Chastain, Lagasse, Koch, B.Gordon, Richardson, Bliss, Nemechek, and McClure were all involved in a crash during qualifying.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Nationwide Series Qualifying Results for\u00a0Daytona<\/h2>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> \u00a0<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dakoda Armstrong<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Bayne<\/li>\n<li>Chris Buescher<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Reed<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Busch<\/li>\n<li>Elliott Sadler<\/li>\n<li>Chase Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Regan Smith<\/li>\n<li>Darrell Wallace Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Larson<\/li>\n<li>Joey Logano<\/li>\n<li>Chad Boat<\/li>\n<li>Kasey Kahne<\/li>\n<li>Brendan Gaughan<\/li>\n<li>Brian Scott<\/li>\n<li>Ty Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Mike Wallace<\/li>\n<li>James Buescher<\/li>\n<li>JJ Yeley<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Sauter<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Sieg<\/li>\n<li>Mike Harmon<\/li>\n<li>Derrike Cope<\/li>\n<li>Tanner Berryhill<\/li>\n<li>Landon Cassill<\/li>\n<li>Dylan Kwasniewski<\/li>\n<li>John Wes Townley<\/li>\n<li>Scott Lagasse<\/li>\n<li>David Starr<\/li>\n<li>Mike Bliss<\/li>\n<li>David Ragan<\/li>\n<li>Ross Chastain<\/li>\n<li>Eric McClure<\/li>\n<li>Joe Nemechek<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Contreras<\/li>\n<li>Josh Wise<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Clements<\/li>\n<li>Robert Richardson<\/li>\n<li>Joey Gase<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Earnhardt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Failing to make the race was Benny Gordon, Blake Koch, Tommy Joe Martins, Bobby Gerhart\u00a0and Matt Dibenedetto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dakoda Armstrong\u00a0won the pole for Friday\u00a0nights NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International\u00a0Speedway. The driver of the No.43 Ford Mustang\u00a0was the fastest during qualifying and will lead a field of 40 cars to the green flag for the start of the Subway Firecracker 250 at the 2.5-mile Daytona track. Rain forced qualifying to be shorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-13956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xfinity","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956","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=13956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}