{"id":19097,"date":"2018-11-11T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=19097"},"modified":"2018-11-11T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:09:18","slug":"xxxxs-win-in-phoenix-sets-championship-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/11\/11\/xxxxs-win-in-phoenix-sets-championship-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Busch&#8217;s win in Phoenix sets Championship 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19098\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/joeylogano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/joeylogano.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/joeylogano-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/11\/joeylogano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Championship 4 for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is set after Sunday&#8217;s running of the Can-Am 500 at ISM Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>Winning Sunday&#8217;s race was Kyle Busch. He joined Martinsville winner Joey Logano in securing a guaranteed spot into the championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick previously won Texas but a L1 penalty found on his car took away his wain.<\/p>\n<p>A late accident involving both Kurt Busch and Chase Elliott would end their title hopes after Denny Hamlin bumped into Busch on a restart collecting both championship hopefuls and others.<\/p>\n<p>That incident and points from earlier in the race ensured Kyle Busch would make the playoffs at-least via points.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex made the Championship 4 on points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Championship 4 for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is set after Sunday&#8217;s running of the Can-Am 500 at ISM Raceway. Winning Sunday&#8217;s race was Kyle Busch. He joined Martinsville winner Joey Logano in securing a guaranteed spot into the championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Kevin Harvick previously won Texas but a L1 penalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,969,326,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-19097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-ism-raceway","11":"tag-joey-logano","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097","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=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}