{"id":48429,"date":"2024-04-20T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=48429"},"modified":"2024-04-20T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T21:08:00","slug":"michael-mcdowell-earns-geico-500-pole-position-at-talladega-superspeedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/michael-mcdowell-earns-geico-500-pole-position-at-talladega-superspeedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McDowell earns Geico 500 pole position at Talladega Superspeedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this season and second time in his career, Michael McDowell has won a pole award in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series. This time, it comes at Talladega Superspeedway for the Geico 500. <\/p>\n<p>The top three cars in qualifying were Fords. Two of those three were Front Row Motorsports Fords. Michael McDowell paced the field with a 52.609-second lap. He beat out Austin Cindric who posted a time of 52.691. <\/p>\n<p>Todd Gilliland was third overall in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARonNBC\/status\/1781714542684242146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final qualifying round<\/a>. Is this finally the big break that these Ford teams and drivers were looking for? <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"h7S4wcqMENnlK8sFLW20etDaPAybjVokYXrGgBm3Rp9vZJd\">\n<p>REPOST to congratulate Michael McDowell!<\/p>\n<p>He puts Front Row on the front row with a pole at Talladega! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BpSwpVU1wQ\">pic.twitter.com\/BpSwpVU1wQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARonNBC\/status\/1781714542684242146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This is a developing story\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/michael-mcdowell-earns-geico-500-pole-position-at-talladega-superspeedway\/\">Michael McDowell earns Geico 500 pole position at Talladega Superspeedway<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this season and second time in his career, Michael McDowell has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48457,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48429\/revisions\/48457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}