{"id":20113,"date":"2019-03-25T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20113"},"modified":"2019-03-25T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T02:36:15","slug":"nascar-qualifying-changes-does-not-include-single-car-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/25\/nascar-qualifying-changes-does-not-include-single-car-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Qualifying changes does not include single car runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0690.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20112\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0690.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0690-594x335.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0690-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/img_0690-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR has made some changes to qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Those hoping to see a return to single car qualifying will be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Starting at Texas, any driver that does not take a lap in any of the qualifying rounds will have all previously posted times in qualifying disallowed. Any driver blocking out road will also receive a penalty which could result in their times being disallowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Vice President of Competition Scott Miller days single car qualifying was not considered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cOne of the things we wanted to hold true to is not to go back to single-car qualifying,\u201d Miller said. \u201cSingle-car qualifying is two things \u2013 it\u2019s boring and it\u2019s expensive. It also doesn\u2019t create a good show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Stainless-Regular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cAnytime we go on the track it should be a show. Certainly, we are in, first and foremost, the racing business. But we\u2019re also in show business. We definitely have to provide our fans with something that\u2019s intriguing to watch and gets them excited about coming back and watching the race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR has made some changes to qualifying. Those hoping to see a return to single car qualifying will be disappointed. Starting at Texas, any driver that does not take a lap in any of the qualifying rounds will have all previously posted times in qualifying disallowed. Any driver blocking out road will also receive a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,788],"tags":[789,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cup-series","category-news","tag-front","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113","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=20113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20113"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}