{"id":22130,"date":"2019-09-14T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22130"},"modified":"2019-09-14T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T22:11:54","slug":"clint-bowyer-surprises-with-las-vegas-pole-qualifying-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/09\/14\/clint-bowyer-surprises-with-las-vegas-pole-qualifying-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Bowyer surprises with Las Vegas pole, qualifying results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5542.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22129\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5542.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5542-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5542-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/09\/img_5542-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To say Clint Bowyer was an after thought for winning the pole for Sunday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway would be an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 12 years and 431 races since Bowyer last won a pole. The pole is Bowyers second career pole as he led a sweep of the top four spots for Stewart Haas Racing drivers.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Aleo, serif; font-size: 16px; 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\">Las Vegas Motor Speedway qualifying <\/span>results<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Aleo, serif; font-size: 16px; 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\"> <\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Clint Bowyer<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Suarez<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Harvick<\/li>\n<li>Aric Almirola<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Busch<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Hemric<\/li>\n<li>Austin Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Chase Elliott<\/li>\n<li>Jimmie Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Michael McDowell<\/li>\n<li>David Ragan<\/li>\n<li>Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Denny Hamlin<\/li>\n<li>William Byron<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Larson<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Preece<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Newman<\/li>\n<li>Brad Keselowski<\/li>\n<li>Alex Bowman<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Busch<\/li>\n<li>Paul Menard<\/li>\n<li>Joey Logano<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Blaney<\/li>\n<li>Martin Truex Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Matt DiBenedetto<\/li>\n<li>Erik Jones<\/li>\n<li>Ty Dillon<\/li>\n<li>Chris Buescher<\/li>\n<li>Matt Tifft<\/li>\n<li>Landon Cassill<\/li>\n<li>Bubba Wallace<\/li>\n<li>Ross Chastain<\/li>\n<li>Corey LaJoie<\/li>\n<li>Garrett Smithley<\/li>\n<li>Bj McLeod<\/li>\n<li>JJ Yeley<\/li>\n<li>Reed Sorenson<\/li>\n<li>Joe Nemechek<\/li>\n<li>Joey Gase<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say Clint Bowyer was an after thought for winning the pole for Sunday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway would be an understatement. It has been 12 years and 431 races since Bowyer last won a pole. The pole is Bowyers second career pole as he led a sweep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[154,789,378,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22130","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-clint-bowyer","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-las-vegas-motor-speedway","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","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=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}