{"id":28228,"date":"2019-10-13T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2019-10-13T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:17:56","slug":"rain-halts-talladega-race-after-william-byron-wins-stage-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/13\/rain-halts-talladega-race-after-william-byron-wins-stage-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain halts Talladega race after William Byron wins Stage 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service<\/em><\/p>\n

TALLADEGA, Ala \u2013 In a helter-skelter finish at the end of Lap 55, William Byron held the lead to win Stage 1 of Sunday\u2019s 1000Bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway to advance his cause in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Chase Elliott, driver of the #9 NAPA Night Vision Chevrolet, and Alex Bowman, driver of the #88 Nationwide\/Amazon Echo Auto Chevrolet, lead the field during Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series 1000Bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on October 13, 2019 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photo by Chris Graythen\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

The winner of Stage 2 and the race, however, won\u2019t be decided until Monday. Rain arrived during the first stage break and sent fans in the frontstretch grandstands scurrying for cover. A subsequent break in the rain wasn\u2019t long enough to dry the 2.66-mile track and get the race restarted.<\/p>\n

With 57-of-188 laps complete, the race will resume at 2 p.m. ET Monday, broadcast on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.<\/p>\n

The stage win left Byron temporarily in eighth place in the Playoff standings, six points ahead of ninth-place Joey Logano, who was second in Stage 1. The Playoff field will be cut from 12 to eight drivers after next Sunday\u2019s Cup race at Kansas Speedway.<\/p>\n

Alex Bowman, Byron\u2019s teammate finished third in the opening stage, followed by Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, Jimmie Johnson, Daniel Suarez, Kurt Busch and Ryan Blaney.<\/p>\n

The Fords of Keselowski and Clint Bowyer hooked up in a tandem draft, with Bowyer pushing the No. 2 Mustang to the lead on Lap 44. The cars had such a strong run together that they separated from the rest of the pack and were soon swallowed by the pursuing draft.<\/p>\n

At the end of the race, however, tandem runs may well be crucial in deciding the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service TALLADEGA, Ala \u2013 In a helter-skelter finish at the end of Lap 55, William Byron held the lead to win Stage 1 of Sunday\u2019s 1000Bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway to advance his cause in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs. The winner of Stage 2 and the race, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":28230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[16,208],"class_list":["post-28228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-talladega-superspeedway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MENCS_Talladega_PreRaceFrontRow_10132019.jpg?fit=2020%2C1136&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-7li","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28231,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions\/28231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}