{"id":17588,"date":"2016-03-04T22:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2016-03-04T22:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T03:46:41","slug":"kurt-busch-wins-nascar-pole-at-las-vegas-kobalt-400-qualifying-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2016\/03\/04\/kurt-busch-wins-nascar-pole-at-las-vegas-kobalt-400-qualifying-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Busch wins NASCAR pole at Las Vegas, Kobalt 400 Qualifying Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17589\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/03\/kurtbusch.jpg\" alt=\"kurtbusch\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/03\/kurtbusch.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/03\/kurtbusch-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2016\/03\/kurtbusch-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sitting on the pole for the Kobalt 400 this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be Kurt Busch. The driver of the No. 41\u00a0was the fastest of 39 cars to qualify for Sunday&#8217;s race which will be the third of the season for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Kevin Harvick went to victory lane at Las Vegas and the Stewart-Haas driver as well as the rest of the field will be looking to join Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson who have all but guaranteed themselves a spot in the end of year Chase.<\/p>\n<p>The Sprint Cup drivers will run 267 laps at LVMS for a total of 400.5 miles. Coverage of this event airs on FOX starting at 3:30 pm ET with the green flag set to waive at 3:46 pm ET.<\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Kobalt 400 Qualifying Results<\/h2>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- medium in story ad --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kurt Busch<\/li>\n<li>Joey Logano<\/li>\n<li>Matt Kenseth<\/li>\n<li>Brad Keselowski<\/li>\n<li>Austin Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harvick<\/li>\n<li>Aric Almirola<\/li>\n<li>Kasey Kahne<\/li>\n<li>Denny Hamlin<\/li>\n<li>Martin Truex Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Jimmie Johnson<\/li>\n<li>AJ Allmendinger<\/li>\n<li>Chase Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Blaney<\/li>\n<li>Paul Menard<\/li>\n<li>Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Larson<\/li>\n<li>Danica Patrick<\/li>\n<li>Brian Vickers<\/li>\n<li>Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Newman<\/li>\n<li>Casey Mears<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Busch<\/li>\n<li>Carl Edwards<\/li>\n<li>Chris Buescher<\/li>\n<li>Greg Biffle<\/li>\n<li>Landon Cassill<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Bayne<\/li>\n<li>Jamie McMurray<\/li>\n<li>Michael McDowell<\/li>\n<li>David Ragan<\/li>\n<li>Brian Scott<\/li>\n<li>Regan Smith<\/li>\n<li>Matt DiBenedetto<\/li>\n<li>Clint Bowyer<\/li>\n<li>Cole Whitt<\/li>\n<li>Michael Annett<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Earnhardt<\/li>\n<li>Josh Wise<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on the pole for the Kobalt 400 this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be Kurt Busch. The driver of the No. 41\u00a0was the fastest of 39 cars to qualify for Sunday&#8217;s race which will be the third of the season for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Last year Kevin Harvick went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,372,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-17588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-kurt-busch","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588","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=17588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}