Toyota has its first pole place for the Daytona 500.
Chase Briscoe posted the quickest lap in each rounds of qualifying Wednesday evening and can begin first in Sunday’s Daytona 500. Briscoe’s lap of 49.249 seconds and 182.745 MPH was quicker than Austin Cindric and Ryan Preece within the all-important second spherical.
Briscoe will begin first within the first Duel qualifying race on Thursday whereas Cindric will begin first within the second Duel.
Briscoe acquired Toyota’s first pole for the five hundred in what will likely be his first factors race for the producer. Briscoe was employed by Joe Gibbs Racing to exchange the retiring Martin Truex Jr. Briscoe was out there as a result of his earlier workforce, Stewart-Haas Racing, shut down on the finish of the 2024 season.
It’s the second Daytona 500 pole for JGR. The workforce’s first got here in 1998 when Bobby Labonte posted the quickest lap whereas driving a Pontiac.
Truex continues to be driving a part-time schedule and was one among two drivers to qualify for the Daytona 500 by way of his qualifying pace on Wednesday evening. Each Truex and seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson posted quick sufficient laps to ensure they’ll be within the race it doesn’t matter what occurs in the course of the Duel qualifying races.
Forty-five automobiles are entered for 40 spots within the race. Of these 45, 36 automobiles are assured a beginning spot by way of NASCAR’s constitution system, leaving 9 drivers for 4 spots.
It’s now seven drivers for 2 (or extra) spots with Truex and Johnson posting the perfect laps of any of the 9 open automobiles. 4-time Indianapolis 500 champion Helio Castroneves can be in an open automotive and, not like another driver in an open automotive, is assured to make the race.
If Castroneves doesn’t qualify for the race by way of his Duel, he’ll be capable of benefit from a newly-created NASCAR provisional for a driver of great standing. If Castroneves makes use of the provisional — and he’s the one driver eligible to take action — the Daytona 500 will characteristic 41 automobiles.
If both Truex or Johnson are the highest-finishing open automobiles of their Duel races, then Justin Allgaier is in line to make the race by way of his qualifying pace. Allgaier is driving a automotive for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in JR Motorsports’ first try and make a Cup Sequence race.
Thursday evening’s Duels start at 7 p.m. ET. The lineup for each races is beneath and the highest-finishing open automotive (denoted with an *) will lock into the Daytona 500.
1. Chase Briscoe
2. Ryan Preece
3. Josh Berry
4. Austin Dillon
5. Ty Dillon
6. Zane Smith
7. Kyle Busch
8. Chase Elliott
9. Michael McDowell
10. AJ Allmendinger
11. William Byron
12. Martin Truex Jr.*
13. Ty Gibbs
14. Tyler Reddick
15. Bubba Wallace
16. Justin Haley
17. Justin Allgaier*
18. Carson Hocevar
19. Ross Chastain
20. Helio Castroneves*
21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
22. Chandler Smith*
23. JJ Yeley*
1. Austin Cindric
2. Joey Logano
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Christopher Bell
5. Kyle Larson
6. Alex Bowman
7. Todd Gilliland
8. Brad Keselowski
9. Chris Buescher
10. Ryan Blaney
11. Noah Gragson
12. Daniel Suarez
13. Riley Herbst
14. Jimmie Johnson*
15. Shane van Gisbergen
16. Cole Custer
17. Corey LaJoie*
18. Erik Jones
19. John Hunter Nemechek
20. Anthony Alfredo*
21. BJ McLeod*
22. Cody Ware
