{"id":20066,"date":"2019-03-23T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20066"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:41:29","slug":"clint-bowyer-fastest-in-mencs-opening-practice-at-martinsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/23\/clint-bowyer-fastest-in-mencs-opening-practice-at-martinsville\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Bowyer fastest in MENCS opening practice at Martinsville"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clint Bowyer was the fastest in the opening practice for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Martinsville. Bowyer having success at Martinsville is not a surprise, he won here a year ago. Teammates Daniel Suarez and Aric Almirola were second and third while Kevin Harvick was 11th.<\/p>\n

MENCS drivers have two practice sessions on Saturday ahead of qualifying which takes place after the Gander Outdoors Truck Series race. Qualifying is expected to take place at 5 pm ET.<\/p>\n

The MENCS will run the STP 500 at Martinsville on Sunday. FOX Sports 1 and MRN have coverage of the race starting at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n

MENCS Practice Martinsville<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
RaceRank<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nDriver<\/td>\nBestLapTime<\/td>\nBestSpeed<\/td>\nBestLap<\/td>\nLaps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n14<\/td>\nClint Bowyer<\/td>\n19.387<\/td>\n97.6737<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n41<\/td>\nDaniel Suarez<\/td>\n19.47<\/td>\n97.2573<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nAric Almirola<\/td>\n19.521<\/td>\n97.0032<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n19<\/td>\nMartin Truex Jr.<\/td>\n19.534<\/td>\n96.9387<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n18<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n19.545<\/td>\n96.8841<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n19.576<\/td>\n96.7307<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n37<\/td>\nChris Buescher<\/td>\n19.593<\/td>\n96.6468<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n22<\/td>\nJoey Logano<\/td>\n19.62<\/td>\n96.5138<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n11<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin<\/td>\n19.634<\/td>\n96.4449<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nChase Elliott<\/td>\n19.634<\/td>\n96.4449<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n4<\/td>\nKevin Harvick<\/td>\n19.64<\/td>\n96.4155<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nRyan Blaney<\/td>\n19.641<\/td>\n96.4106<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n48<\/td>\nJimmie Johnson<\/td>\n19.668<\/td>\n96.2782<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n20<\/td>\nErik Jones<\/td>\n19.671<\/td>\n96.2635<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n42<\/td>\nKyle Larson<\/td>\n19.694<\/td>\n96.1511<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n3<\/td>\nAustin Dillon<\/td>\n19.696<\/td>\n96.1413<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n21<\/td>\nPaul Menard<\/td>\n19.726<\/td>\n95.9951<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n88<\/td>\nAlex Bowman<\/td>\n19.733<\/td>\n95.9611<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\n43<\/td>\nBubba Wallace<\/td>\n19.738<\/td>\n95.9368<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n47<\/td>\nRyan Preece #<\/td>\n19.742<\/td>\n95.9173<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nTy Dillon<\/td>\n19.751<\/td>\n95.8736<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n95<\/td>\nMatt DiBenedetto<\/td>\n19.757<\/td>\n95.8445<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nKurt Busch<\/td>\n19.759<\/td>\n95.8348<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nCorey LaJoie<\/td>\n19.769<\/td>\n95.7863<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nRyan Newman<\/td>\n19.79<\/td>\n95.6847<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\n38<\/td>\nDavid Ragan<\/td>\n19.808<\/td>\n95.5977<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nDaniel Hemric #<\/td>\n19.859<\/td>\n95.3522<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n19.869<\/td>\n95.3042<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n17<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr.<\/td>\n19.879<\/td>\n95.2563<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n36<\/td>\nMatt Tifft #<\/td>\n19.925<\/td>\n95.0364<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\n15<\/td>\nRoss Chastain(i)<\/td>\n19.967<\/td>\n94.8365<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nLandon Cassill<\/td>\n20.032<\/td>\n94.5288<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\n52<\/td>\nJeb Burton(i)<\/td>\n20.236<\/td>\n93.5758<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n51<\/td>\nCody Ware #<\/td>\n20.262<\/td>\n93.4557<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\n77<\/td>\nDJ Kennington(i)<\/td>\n20.435<\/td>\n92.6645<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\n24<\/td>\nWilliam Byron<\/td>\n20.606<\/td>\n91.8956<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clint Bowyer was the fastest in the opening practice for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Martinsville. Bowyer having success at Martinsville is not a surprise, he won here a year ago. Teammates Daniel Suarez and Aric Almirola were second and third while Kevin Harvick was 11th. MENCS drivers have two practice sessions on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[154,789,409,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-news","9":"tag-clint-bowyer","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-martinsville-speedway","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066","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=20066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20066"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}