{"id":20080,"date":"2019-03-23T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2019-03-23T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T17:37:32","slug":"chase-elliott-and-henrick-teammates-fast-in-mencs-final-practice-at-martinsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/03\/23\/chase-elliott-and-henrick-teammates-fast-in-mencs-final-practice-at-martinsville\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott and Henrick teammates fast in MENCS final practice at Martinsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20081\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/chaseelliott-1024x621.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/chaseelliott-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/chaseelliott-594x360.png 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/chaseelliott-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/chaseelliott-768x465.png 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/03\/chaseelliott.png 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott led a group of Henrick Motorsports teammates as the fastest drivers in Saturday&#8217;s final practice at Martinsville Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott, Alex Bowman and Jimmie Johnson were the fastest three cars ahead of qualifying for Sunday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, the STP 500.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Bowyer and a group of Stewart Haas Racing teammates crowded the charts in the first practice of Saturday. Qualifying is set for 5 pm ET, following the Gander Outdoors Truck Series race.<\/p>\n<p>The STP 500 will be run on Sunday at 2 pm ET airing on FOX Sports 1.<\/p>\n<h2>Final Practice Speeds<\/h2>\n<table width=\"548\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"82\">RaceRank<\/td>\n<td width=\"41\">No<\/td>\n<td width=\"119\">Driver<\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">BestLapTime<\/td>\n<td width=\"86\">BestSpeed<\/td>\n<td width=\"70\">BestLap<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\">Laps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chase Elliott<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19.413<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">97.5429<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">88<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Bowman<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19.597<\/td>\n<td 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Elliott, Alex Bowman and Jimmie Johnson were the fastest three cars ahead of qualifying for Sunday&#8217;s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race, the STP 500. Clint Bowyer and a group of Stewart Haas Racing teammates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[128,409],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-20080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chase-elliott","9":"tag-martinsville-speedway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}