{"id":23834,"date":"2020-05-14T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23834"},"modified":"2020-05-14T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T23:22:51","slug":"keselowski-to-start-on-darlington-pole-following-random-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/05\/14\/keselowski-to-start-on-darlington-pole-following-random-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Keselowski to start on Darlington pole following random draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23835\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-594x396.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-696x464.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-1068x712.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski-630x420.jpg 630w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/05\/bradkeselowski.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Keselowski will start on the pole for Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway following a random draw.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bowman will join Keselowski on the front row thanks to the draw which will be NASCAR&#8217;s first race since March 8 at Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Newman will make his return to the track following a last lap crash in the season opening Daytona 500 while Matt Kenseth will be in the No. 42 car making his first start since the 2018 season finale at Homestead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darlington starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1. Brad Keselowski<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2. Alex Bowman<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3.\u00a0Matt DiBenedetto<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4.\u00a0Kyle Busch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5.\u00a0Aric Almirola<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6. Kevin Harvick<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">7.\u00a0Ryan Blaney<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">8.\u00a0Jimmie Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">9.\u00a0Joey Logano<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">10.\u00a0Denny Hamlin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">11.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Chase<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Elliott<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">12. Matt Kenseth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">13.\u00a0Clint Bowyer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">14.\u00a0Cole Custer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">15.\u00a0Martin Truex Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">16.\u00a0Austin Dillon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">17.\u00a0Bubba Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">18.\u00a0William Byron<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">19.\u00a0Corey LaJoie<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">20.\u00a0Erik Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">21. Ryan Newman<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">22.\u00a0Kurt Busch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">23.\u00a0Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">24.\u00a0Chris Buescher<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">25.\u00a0Ryan Preece<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">26.\u00a0Garrett Smithley<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">27.\u00a0Quin Houff<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">28.\u00a0Christopher Bell<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">29.\u00a0Tyler Reddick<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">30.\u00a0J.J. Yeley<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">31.\u00a0Michael McDowell<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">32.\u00a0Joey Gase<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">33.\u00a0Ty Dillon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">34.\u00a0John Hunter Nemechek<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">35.\u00a0Brennan Poole<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">36.\u00a0Reed Sorenson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">37.\u00a0Daniel Suarez<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">38.\u00a0Timmy Hill<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">39. TBD<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">40. TBD<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Keselowski will start on the pole for Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway following a random draw. Alex Bowman will join Keselowski on the front row thanks to the draw which will be NASCAR&#8217;s first race since March 8 at Phoenix. Ryan Newman will make his return to the track following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[87,180,789,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-23834","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-brad-keselowski","11":"tag-darlington-raceway","12":"tag-front","13":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834","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=23834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}