{"id":18337,"date":"2018-05-28T12:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2018-05-28T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T16:19:19","slug":"kevin-harvick-finishes-last-for-the-first-time-in-his-nascar-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/05\/28\/kevin-harvick-finishes-last-for-the-first-time-in-his-nascar-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick finishes last for the first time in his NASCAR career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/05\/kevinharvick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/05\/kevinharvick.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/05\/kevinharvick-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/05\/kevinharvick-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick has been to victory lane five times this season at the NASCAR Cup Series level. On Sunday night he finished last for the time time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the No. 4 Ford Fusion started at the back of the pack and finished last after a tire issue occured in the first stage of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.<br \/>\nNews first came on social media that Harvick&#8217;s first last place finish came in his 1,089th start.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since 1995, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinHarvick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KevinHarvick<\/a> has started 1,089 points-paying races in Cup, XFINITY, and Trucks. He didn&#39;t finish last in the first 1,088. As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LASTCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LASTCAR<\/a> recognizes a 40th-place finish, it&#39;s time to also honor a remarkable streak by one of the sport&#39;s best.<\/p>\n<p>READ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/evCIN3c9nw\">https:\/\/t.co\/evCIN3c9nw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VT26oqdLg1\">pic.twitter.com\/VT26oqdLg1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brock Beard (@LASTCARonBROCK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LASTCARonBROCK\/status\/1000962781208719360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Harvick has been to victory lane five times this season at the NASCAR Cup Series level. On Sunday night he finished last for the time time in his career. The driver of the No. 4 Ford Fusion started at the back of the pack and finished last after a tire issue occured in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,365,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-18337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-nascar-topstory","category-news","tag-front","tag-kevin-harvick","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337","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=18337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18337"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}