Nascar starting lineup for sundays race

Chase Elliott won the pole for the Go Bowling at the Glen on Saturday afternoon, posting a lap of 1:10.477 (125.147 MPH) in the final round of qualifying to earn his third pole of the 2022 season and his second on a road course. Elliott led a Hendrick Motorsports sweep of the front row, as he will be joined in Row 1 by teammate Kyle Larson.

Elliott's first two poles of the season came at Martinsville Speedway and Road America, and he now enters a five-way tie for the most poles this season. Elliott, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, Christopher Bell, and Denny Hamlin all have three poles to their credit.

A considerable amount of attention was paid to former F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who leads an international contingent of drivers in making his NASCAR Cup Series debut. After posting the 10th-fastest time in Group B practice, Raikkonen qualified 27th for his first Cup start and his first stock car race in 11 years. Raikkonen led a group that included Germany's Mike Rockenfeller (33rd), Loris Hezemans of the Netherlands (34th), Russia's Daniil Kvyat (36th), and England's Kyle Tilley, who will start 37th after crashing in the bus stop during his qualifying run.

Group B practice saw two Toyota drivers find trouble in separate incidents: Christopher Bell lost an engine and came to a stop in the esses just as Ty Gibbs got sideways coming out of the bus stop and slid off-course, hitting the barrier in Turn 5 on the driver's side. Gibbs was able to recover and return to the track for qualifying, while Bell will start 38th after being unable to make a qualifying attempt. Cody Ware also did not make a qualifying run after allegedly losing a piece of ballast in practice, which would be a four-race suspension to his crew chief, car chief, and engineer.

In addition to Christopher Bell, Kyle Busch will also reportedly make an engine change after qualifying, meaning that he will drop to the rear of the field for Sunday's race.

While Kyle Larson qualified second, his No. 5 Chevrolet was the lone car to fail pre-qualifying tech inspection twice. As a result, Larson's team has lost pit selection and had a crewmember ejected from the race weekend.

Go Bowling at the Glen starting lineup

1. #9 - Chase Elliott
2. #5 - Kyle Larson
3. #34 - Michael McDowell
4. #24 - William Byron
5. #8 - Tyler Reddick
6. #16 - A.J. Allmendinger
7. #17 - Chris Buescher
8. #2 - Austin Cindric (R)
9. #99 - Daniel Suarez
10. #18 - Kyle Busch
11. #48 - Alex Bowman
12. #3 - Austin Dillon
13. #31 - Justin Haley
14. #14 - Chase Briscoe
15. #6 - Brad Keselowski
16. #45 - Ty Gibbs
17. #15 - Joey Hand
18. #1 - Ross Chastain
19. #38 - Todd Gilliland (R)
20. #22 - Joey Logano
21. #47 - Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
22. #11 - Denny Hamlin
23. #23 - Bubba Wallace
24. #4 - Kevin Harvick
25. #19 - Martin Truex Jr.
26. #12 - Ryan Blaney
27. #91 - Kimi Raikkonen
28. #42 - Ty Dillon
29. #41 - Cole Custer
30. #21 - Harrison Burton (R)
31. #43 - Erik Jones
32. #7 - Corey LaJoie
33. #77 - Mike Rockenfeller
34. #27 - Loris Hezemans
35. #10 - Aric Almirola
36. #26 - Daniil Kvyat
37. #78 - Kyle Tilley
38. #20 - Christopher Bell
39. #51 - Cody Ware
    

Brad Keselowski will lead the field to green for Sunday’s Cup Series playoff race at Texas Motor Speedway (3:30 p.m. ET, USA Network, NBC Sports App, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) as he won his first pole since 2019 with a fastest lap of 188.990 mph in Saturday’s qualifying session. The pole win for RFK Racing follows up on the momentum built from Chris Buescher’s win at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend.

This is the 2012 series champion’s 18th career pole. He is looking for his first NASCAR Cup Series win at Texas Motor Speedway.

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“It’s certainly a lot of progress,’’ Keselowski said, adding, “You do things in this sport and it takes six to eight months to be noticed. It takes months and months of hard work for it all to come together and it’s super painful.”

It will be in all-Ford front row Sunday as Joey Logano joins his former teammate on the front row.

William Byron, Tyler Reddick and Michael McDowell will start inside the top five while Chase Elliott, Austin Dillon, Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson and Daniel Suárez make up the rest of the top 10 in the starting lineup.

Six playoff drivers will start outside the top 10: Austin Cindric (11th), Ross Chastain (12th), Ryan Blaney (14th), Alex Bowman (17th), Christopher Bell (22nd), Chase Briscoe (30th).

Despite being the most-consistent playoff driver in the Round of 16, Bell will have to work through the field to hold his spot above the current playoff cutline as he sits just four points above it.

Practice

The Richard Childress Racing duo of Dillon (187.643 mph) and Reddick (187.576 mph) owned the fastest laps during practice, which was reminiscent of their 1-2 finish at Texas in the summer of 2020. Alex Bowman, Joey Logano and Erik Jones also posted top-five speeds.

MORE: Cup Series practice results

Logano posted the best 10 consecutive lap time with an average of 185.528 mph. Three Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets posted top-five 10-lap averages with Bowman, Byron and Elliott cracking the list.

The NASCAR Wire Service contributed to this report. 

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