{"id":16059,"date":"2015-03-29T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2015-03-29T17:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T21:17:51","slug":"martinsville-nascar-cup-series-startling-lineup-green-flag-and-tv-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/03\/29\/martinsville-nascar-cup-series-startling-lineup-green-flag-and-tv-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinsville: NASCAR Cup Series startling lineup, green flag and tv info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16060\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-1017x1024.jpg\" alt=\"stp500\" width=\"394\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-415x418.jpg 415w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/stp500.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is at Martinsville Speedway this weekend for the running of the STP 500.<\/p>\n<p>Martinsville is famous for its hotdogs, grandfather clocks and of course its curbs. A field of 43 Cup Series cars will take to the smallest track on the circuit for 500 laps<\/p>\n<p>Joey Longao\u00a0will start Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville on the pole.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Longao\u00a0on the front row will be Ryan Newman\u00a0for the running of the STP 500.<\/p>\n<p>The Sprint Cup Series will complete 500 laps around the smallest track on the circuit at 0.526 for a total of 263 laps.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of Sunday&#8217;s race will air on FOX Sports 1 beginning at 1:00 pm ET with the green flag to wave at 1:13 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Busch won this event last year while it was Dale Earnhardt Jr. who went to victory lane in the fall.<\/p>\n<h2>Sprint Cup Qualifying Results for STP 500<\/h2>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Joey Logano<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Newman<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Truex Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Gordon<\/li>\n<li>Jimmie Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Tony Stewart<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Larson<\/li>\n<li>Matt Kenseth<\/li>\n<li>Kasey Kahne<\/li>\n<li>AJ Allmendinger<\/li>\n<li>Carl Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Brad Keselowski<\/li>\n<li>Paul Menard<\/li>\n<li>Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Denny Hamlin<\/li>\n<li>Danica Patrick<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harvick<\/li>\n<li>Aric Almirla<\/li>\n<li>Jamie McMurray<\/li>\n<li>David Ragan<\/li>\n<li>Justin Allgaier<\/li>\n<li>Austin Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Casey Mears<\/li>\n<li>Greg Biffle<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Busch<\/li>\n<li>Chase Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Michael Annett<\/li>\n<li>David Gilliland<\/li>\n<li>Clint Bowyer<\/li>\n<li>Josh Wise<\/li>\n<li>Jeb Burton<\/li>\n<li>Brett offitt<\/li>\n<li>Landon Cassill<\/li>\n<li>Chris Buescher<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Bayne<\/li>\n<li>Cole Whitt<\/li>\n<li>Sam Hornish Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Bowman<\/li>\n<li>Mike Bliss<\/li>\n<li>Alex Kennedy<\/li>\n<li>JJ Yeley<\/li>\n<li>Matt Dibenedetto<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Failing to make the race were\u00a0Brendan Gaughan and\u00a0Ron Hornaday Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is at Martinsville Speedway this weekend for the running of the STP 500. Martinsville is famous for its hotdogs, grandfather clocks and of course its curbs. A field of 43 Cup Series cars will take to the smallest track on the circuit for 500 laps Joey Longao\u00a0will start Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16059","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-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059","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=16059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}