{"id":11854,"date":"2009-05-08T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2009-05-08T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T01:03:30","slug":"automobile-nascar-kenseth-wins-darlington-pole-with-qualifying-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11854","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; Kenseth wins Darlington pole with qualifying record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0On a &#8220;green&#8221; race track washed by a hard afternoon rain, Matt Kenseth laid down the best qualifying lap in the history of Darlington Raceway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Touring the 1.366-mile egg-shaped circuit in 27.394 seconds (179.514 mph), Kenseth won the pole for Saturday night&#8217;s Southern 500, edging Jeff Gordon (178.861 mph) by a tenth of a second in a session that saw three-time defending Cup champion Jimmie Johnson wreck in Turn 2 on his first lap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ryan Newman (178.757 mph) qualified third, followed by Sam Hornish Jr. (178.744 mph) and rookie Joey Logano (178.549 mph)&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/2009\/news\/headlines\/cup\/05\/08\/preview.kenseth.darlington.pole\/index.html?eref=\/rss\/news\/headlines\/cup\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0On a &#8220;green&#8221; race track washed by a hard afternoon rain, Matt Kenseth laid down the best qualifying lap in the history of Darlington Raceway. Touring the 1.366-mile egg-shaped circuit in 27.394 seconds (179.514 mph), Kenseth won the pole for Saturday night&#8217;s Southern 500, edging Jeff Gordon (178.861 mph) by a tenth of a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}