{"id":6572,"date":"2013-03-08T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2013-03-08T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:20:02","slug":"nascar-qualifying-rained-out-brad-keselowski-on-pole-at-lvms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/03\/08\/nascar-qualifying-rained-out-brad-keselowski-on-pole-at-lvms\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Keselowski on pole at Las Vegas, full starting lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6573\" alt=\"nascarvegasrain\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/03\/nascarvegasrain.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/03\/nascarvegasrain.jpg 572w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/03\/nascarvegasrain-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The qualifying session for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been rained out. As a result the starting lineup will be determined by 2012 points which will place Brad Keselowski on the pole.<\/p>\n<p>Danica Patrick who was in danger of going home if she did not make the race on time will be in the field while Mike Bliss will have to head home.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas marks the final week that last season\u2019s points will be used to determine the race lineup if both practice and qualifying are rained out. The top 36 starters would be determined by last year\u2019s owner\u2019s points, with the remainder of the field set by owners\u2019 points or qualifying attempts this season. If Sprint Cup practice does get in but qualifying does not, the field would be set by practice speeds.<\/p>\n<h2>Starting Lineup for Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway:<\/h2>\n<p>1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Brad Keselowski<br \/>\n2\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Clint Bowyer<br \/>\n3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jimmie Johnson<br \/>\n4\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kasey Kahne<br \/>\n5\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Greg Biffle<br \/>\n6\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Denny Hamlin<br \/>\n7\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<br \/>\n8\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kevin Harvick<br \/>\n9\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tony Stewart<br \/>\n10\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jeff Gordon<br \/>\n11\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Martin Truex Jr.<br \/>\n12\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dale Earnhardt Jr.<br \/>\n13\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kyle Busch<br \/>\n14\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ryan Newman<br \/>\n15\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Mark Martin<br \/>\n16\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Carl Edwards<br \/>\n17\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Paul Menard<br \/>\n18\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Matt Kenseth<br \/>\n19\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Marcos Ambrose<br \/>\n20\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jeff Burton<br \/>\n21\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Joey Logano<br \/>\n22\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Aric Almirola<br \/>\n23\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Jamie McMurray<br \/>\n24\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Kurt Busch<br \/>\n25\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Juan Pablo Montoya<br \/>\n26\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Bobby Labonte<br \/>\n27\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Austin Dillion<br \/>\n28\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Travis Kvapil<br \/>\n29\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0David Ragan<br \/>\n30\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Casey Mears<br \/>\n31\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0David Gilliland<br \/>\n32\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0David Reutimann<br \/>\n33\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Dave Blaney<br \/>\n34\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Ken Schrader<br \/>\n35\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0JJ Yeley<br \/>\n36\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Trevor Bayne<br \/>\n37\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Danica Patrick<br \/>\n38\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0David Stremme<br \/>\n39\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Michael McDowell<br \/>\n40\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Scott Speed<br \/>\n41\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Landon Cassill<br \/>\n42\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Joe Nemechek<br \/>\n43\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Josh Wise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The qualifying session for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been rained out. As a result the starting lineup will be determined by 2012 points which will place Brad Keselowski on the pole. Danica Patrick who was in danger of going home if she did not make the race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","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=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}