{"id":25546,"date":"2019-07-20T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=25546"},"modified":"2019-07-20T08:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:27:32","slug":"keselowski-captures-his-fourth-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-pole-at-the-magic-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/07\/keselowski-captures-his-fourth-monster-energy-nascar-cup-series-pole-at-the-magic-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"Keselowski Captures His Fourth Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pole at &#8220;The Magic Mile&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Brad Keselowski will&nbsp;lead the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series field for the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway this Sunday at 3:00 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/DvH5_N4owZhGQ_QHv5mLuV0noHrXvbnMVAMlwkhyZEoKkevHEKDHwA0CtlaL_7qpGKO7WkR52110LfhLFbeLMCnTgH557T28jOpUB3bU1U7ehQEJc0h687HfiAg8hcCEX04S0EuGFIYDT_JyrgtKVWY6o4AJV2p1jdRynaeh3llPaLQmiN_dq5NUOaJDc_cLd6aJ5l5NXncVwfSi3n3aQW-5WByU5YS3948apzXMq7kHnxixN62_FqybVN513de-KiZEyRxt4VC2Qqd8FaTzrmY7qIipQlUQcgCEI2MUTbzVXuqQQ43Vf5Dd1CDF7gp5aUBuWMuFuvbMedwtOMrWBhTLgTI7NR94uIyF2NI7KoASmHBeL4b26TQAaqk1f_n6nqn4k5vIXRxm6C1fFqSvgviDlEK5Ugrs_45b3cLDjWt0Q9--p4CI0XCmQUqlb_sbxKRctcDUlKO-wDyRX-BsljkmGMXiVlBQ0YfjMJf38WSSjqLiQ4-SHmYO7grWBa80_exg7lgVDLSdgId8eKjh6Nwzp53OkTiO9h8hYPT_FdxBiH0iN_lp4Hyu2p0kdb5UR9QCyO8ldOtEx46Y8QPyKmuUJKAOTjz0UE5zfBghFCVrSO7zLoshP3q1glWMyvpfTtQTQkIQ21sS-I4JlZf6RtIU3hZiH6efEmVKeHUJKbkCiEwsptWMMZrQ2Y6lw59qRP-OZJ5cnJTkegD9z-_STC4i=w620-h430-no?pageId=117885742654144314464\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LOUDON, N.H. \u2013&nbsp;Brad Keselowski captured the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series pole award in Friday\u2019s Cape Cod Caf\u00e9 Pizza Pole Day at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, putting him in the lead position to start Sunday\u2019s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at 3:00 p.m. This is Keselowski\u2019s fourth career Cup Series pole award at Loudon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI always personally hesitate to undervalue qualifying,\u201d said 35-year-old Keselowski. \u201cWith that in mind, there are some tracks that are less impactful to win the pole, but as you look to rank the tracks where qualifying well matters, this is certainly towards the top.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Busch brothers finished right behind Keselowski posting lap times of 27.942 seconds (Kyle) and 27.957 seconds (Kurt), but Keselowski reached 136.384 mph during his best lap, placing him 0.015 seconds faster than Kyle (27.927 seconds), which earned him his first 2019 pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keselowski still holds on to the speedway\u2019s record lap time for Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, reaching a speed of 140.598 mph, which sent him around \u201cThe Magic Mile\u201d in 27.090 seconds in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI always feel like I\u2019m 10% of the equation and I get 90% of the credit,\u201d said Keselowski. \u201cIf you feel like you\u2019re 10% of the equation, then what\u2019s the other 90% of it? It\u2019s the pit crew, it\u2019s the engineering, it\u2019s the mechanics that bolt the car together. All of those things have to come together on any given weekend to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keselowski will be at the front of the pack in Sunday\u2019s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 as all 37 drivers fight for that coveted spot in victory lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Keselowski will&nbsp;lead the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series field for the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway this Sunday at 3:00 p.m. LOUDON, N.H. \u2013&nbsp;Brad Keselowski captured the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series pole award in Friday\u2019s Cape Cod Caf\u00e9 Pizza Pole Day at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, putting him in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25547,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25546\/revisions\/25547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}