{"id":6365,"date":"2013-02-24T16:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2013-02-24T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T21:53:42","slug":"jimmie-johnson-leads-nascar-sprint-cup-point-standings-after-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/02\/24\/jimmie-johnson-leads-nascar-sprint-cup-point-standings-after-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson leads NASCAR Sprint Cup Point Standings after Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With his win in the 55th running of the Daytona 500, Jimmie Johnson became the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader of the 2013 season.<\/p>\n

Below are the point standings after the first of thirty-six events this season.<\/p>\n

NASCAR Sprint Cup Standings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\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\n\n
RK<\/b><\/td>\nDRIVER<\/b><\/td>\nPOINTS<\/b><\/td>\nBEHIND<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nJimmie Johnson<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nDale Earnhardt Jr.<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nMark Martin<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nBrad Keselowski<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nRyan Newman<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n-7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nGreg Biffle<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n-9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nDanica Patrick<\/td>\n37<\/td>\n-10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nMichael McDowell<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n-12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nJ.J. Yeley<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n-13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nClint Bowyer<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n-13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nRicky Stenhouse Jr.<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n-15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nAric Almirola<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n-16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nDenny Hamlin<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n-16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nBobby Labonte<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n-18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nDavid Reutimann<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n-19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nDave Blaney<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nMarcos Ambrose<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n-21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nJoey Logano<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n-21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nJeff Gordon<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n-22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nPaul Menard<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n-23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\nMichael Waltrip<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n-24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\nScott Speed<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n-25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\nMartin Truex Jr.<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n-27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\nTravis Kvapil<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n-27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\nTerry Labonte<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n-29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\nKurt Busch<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n-31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\nCasey Mears<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n-32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\nJeff Burton<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n-33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\nJamie McMurray<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n-35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\nCarl Edwards<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n-36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\nKyle Busch<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n-37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\nDavid Ragan<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n-38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\nMatt Kenseth<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n-38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\nKasey Kahne<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n-39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\nDavid Gilliland<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n-41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\nJuan Pablo Montoya<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n-42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\nJosh Wise<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n-43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38<\/td>\nTony Stewart<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n-44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39<\/td>\nKevin Harvick<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n-45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With his win in the 55th running of the Daytona 500, Jimmie Johnson became the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader of the 2013 season. Below are the point standings after the first of thirty-six events this season. NASCAR Sprint Cup Standings RK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Jimmie Johnson 47 — 2 Dale Earnhardt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-6365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","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=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}