{"id":4633,"date":"2012-10-28T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2012-10-28T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:54:40","slug":"martinsville-nascar-green-flag-start-time-pole-and-starting-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/10\/28\/martinsville-nascar-green-flag-start-time-pole-and-starting-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinsville: NASCAR green flag start time, pole, and starting lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnd your winner is: Jimmie Johnson<\/a><\/h1>\n

The drivers are at Martinsville for the Tums Fast Relief 500 today for the seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase race. Six-time Martinsville race winner, Jimmie Johnson<\/strong> is on the pole, his speed of 927.598 edged out Brian Vickers for the top spot, who is making his last start of 2012 season, in the #55 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing.\u00a0 Johnson has finished in the top ten in 18 of his 21 starts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Who else to watch for at Martinsville?\u00a0 Denny Hamlin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Hamlin is starting in fifth position and has finished in the top ten 12 of his 14 races at the track. He has seven wins. Hamlin also won yesterdays Camping World Series Truck race at Martinsville.<\/p>\n

Because Martinsville has no lights, NASCAR has to get the race started earlier than at most Chase tracks. Green flag is set for 1:43p.m<\/strong><\/p>\n

The race is 500 laps<\/strong>.
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Brad Keselowski, current points leader, had a bad qualifying run, and is starting in 32nd<\/strong>.
\n<\/strong>
\nOther notables about this race:\u00a0 <\/strong>A.J Allmendinger is in the #51 of Phoenix Racing again this weekend. David Ragan is driving the awesome Where’s Waldo car<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em>Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming back after missing the last two races due to a concussion suffered at Talladega, but this also means Regan Smith will not be driving this weekend.<\/p>\n

Starting lineup for Martinsville<\/h1>\n

1. #48 Jimmie Johnson<\/strong>
\n2. #55 Brian Vickers
\n3. #18 Kyle Busch
\n4. #31 Jeff Burton
\n5. #11 Denny Hamlin<\/strong>
\n 6. #17 Matt Kenseth<\/strong>
\n 7. #14 Tony Stewart<\/strong>
\n 8. #15 Clint Bowyer<\/strong>
\n9. #27 Paul Menard
\n10. #43 Aric Almirola
\n11\u00a0\u00a0 #24 Jeff Gordon<\/strong>
\n 12. #56 Martin Truex Jr.<\/strong>
\n 13. #29 Kevin Harvick<\/strong>
\n14. #20 Joey Logano
\n15. #5 Kasey Kahne<\/strong>
\n16 #34 David Ragan
\n17. #39 Ryan Newman
\n18. #47 Bobby Labonte
\n19. #78 Kurt Busch
\n20. #88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/strong>
\n21. #98 Michael McDowell
\n22. #13 Casey Mears
\n23. #99 Carl Edwards
\n24. #1 Jamie McMurray
\n25. #42 Juan Pablo Montoya
\n26. #51 AJ Allmendinger
\n27. #22 Sam Hornish Jr.
\n28. #32 Ken Schrader
\n29. #10 David Reutimann
\n30. #16 Greg Biffle<\/strong>
\n31 #26 Josh Wise
\n32. #2 Brad Keselowski
\n33 #9 Marcos Ambrose
\n34. #83 Landon Cassill
\n35. #38 David Gilliland
\n36. #23 Scott Riggs
\n37. #36 Dave Blaney
\n38. #87 joe Nemechek
\n39. #91 Reed Sorenson
\n40. #30 David Stremme
\n41. #93 Travis Kvapil
\n42. #33 Stephen Leicht
\n43. #95 Scott Speed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And your winner is: Jimmie Johnson The drivers are at Martinsville for the Tums Fast Relief 500 today for the seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase race. Six-time Martinsville race winner, Jimmie Johnson is on the pole, his speed of 927.598 edged out Brian Vickers for the top spot, who is making his last start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[674],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}