{"id":16096,"date":"2015-04-11T23:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2015-04-11T23:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T03:31:46","slug":"kevin-harvick-leads-points-after-texas-full-sprint-cup-series-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2015\/04\/11\/kevin-harvick-leads-points-after-texas-full-sprint-cup-series-standings\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick leads points after Texas, full  Sprint Cup Series standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16021\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/kevinharvick1.jpg\" alt=\"kevinharvick\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/kevinharvick1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/kevinharvick1-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2015\/03\/kevinharvick1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin\u00a0Harvick\u00a0leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings following the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night it was Jimmie Johnson\u00a0going to victory lane while Harvick\u00a0remained the points leader.<\/p>\n<p>With wins already this season Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson have all claimed spots in the post season chase.<\/p>\n<h2>Sprint Cup Series Point Standings following Texas<\/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><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<table class=\"tablehead\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"colhead\">\n<td align=\"left\">RK<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">DRIVER<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">POINTS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-225\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kevin Harvick<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-227\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jimmie Johnson<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">216<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-4319\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Joey Logano<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-626\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Brad Keselowski<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">246<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-747\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Denny Hamlin<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">205<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-416\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">6<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Martin Truex Jr.<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">266<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-429\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">7<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Kasey Kahne<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-150\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">8<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">213<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-740\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">9<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Aric Almirola<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">195<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-649\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">10<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">David Ragan<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">194<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-223\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">11<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jamie McMurray<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-143\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">12<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Matt Kenseth<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">189<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-67\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">13<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Jeff Gordon<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">186<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-460\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">14<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Carl Edwards<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">182<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"oddrow player-2020-248\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">15<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Casey Mears<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">178<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"evenrow player-2020-575\">\n<td class=\"sortcell\" align=\"left\">16<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\">Paul Menard<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">177<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"colhead\">\n<td colspan=\"4\" align=\"center\">*** Chase 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the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings following the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. On Saturday night it was Jimmie Johnson\u00a0going to victory lane while Harvick\u00a0remained the points leader. With wins already this season Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson have all claimed spots in the post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-16096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","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=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}