{"id":18995,"date":"2018-10-28T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2018-10-27T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:26:00","slug":"nascar-starting-lineup-for-first-data-500-at-martinsville-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/10\/28\/nascar-starting-lineup-for-first-data-500-at-martinsville-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Starting Lineup for First Data 500 at Martinsville Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18996\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/10\/firstdata500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/10\/firstdata500.png 360w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/10\/firstdata500-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The First Data 500 is the first race of the Round of 8 in the\u00a0Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship battle.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch will begin today&#8217;s race on the pole in his No. 18 Toyota Camry joined alongside by another title hopeful in Clint Bowyer.title, claimed the pole for Sunday&#8217;s running of the First Data 500 at Martinsville Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>NBCSN and the NBC Sports App have coverage of the race starting at 2:30 pm ET with the green flag to follow at 2:43 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>Busch won this race last year and ironically it was Bowyer who won when the MENCS visited in the spring.<\/p>\n<h2>NASCAR Starting Lineup for Martinsville<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Kyle Busch<\/li>\n<li>Clint Bowyer<\/li>\n<li>Denny Hamlin<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Blaney<\/li>\n<li>Aric Almirola<\/li>\n<li>Martin Truex Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Busch<\/li>\n<li>Brad Keselowski<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Suarez<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Larson<\/li>\n<li>Joey Logano<\/li>\n<li>William Byron<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harvick<\/li>\n<li>David Ragan<\/li>\n<li>Chris Buescher<\/li>\n<li>Alex Bowman<\/li>\n<li>AJ Allmendinger<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Newman<\/li>\n<li>Jamie McMurray<\/li>\n<li>Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Chase Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Michael McDowell<\/li>\n<li>Jimmie Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Erik Jones<\/li>\n<li>Ross Chastain<\/li>\n<li>Ty Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Matt Kenseth<\/li>\n<li>Austin Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Matt Dibenedetto<\/li>\n<li>Regan Smith<\/li>\n<li>Cole Whitt<\/li>\n<li>Bubba Wallace<\/li>\n<li>DJ Kennington<\/li>\n<li>JJ Yeley<\/li>\n<li>Joey Gase<\/li>\n<li>Jeb Burton<\/li>\n<li>Timmy Hill<\/li>\n<li>Hermie Sadler<\/li>\n<li>Paul Menard<\/li>\n<li>Landon Cassill<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Data 500 is the first race of the Round of 8 in the\u00a0Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship battle. Kyle Busch will begin today&#8217;s race on the pole in his No. 18 Toyota Camry joined alongside by another title hopeful in Clint Bowyer.title, claimed the pole for Sunday&#8217;s running of the First Data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,409,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18995","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-martinsville-speedway","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995","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=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}