Persistent Rain Hands Larson Cup Pole; O'Reilly Race Postponed

Mother Nature would not relent on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the continuing forecast for Saturday afternoon doesn't look very promising. As a result, NASCAR was forced to cancel NASCAR Cup Series practice and qualifying, and the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series Blue Cross NC 300, which was slated for 4 PM ET on Saturday, will now take place on Sunday at 8 PM ET.

Due to the cancellation of NASCAR Cup Series qualifying, Kyle Larson, the defending series champion and current point leader, will have the advantage of starting from the pole position when the Bank of America 400 goes green at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday.

When qualifying is rained out, NASCAR relies on the metric formula, which takes into account current point standings rankings and the results from the most recent race. By having the top metric formula score, Larson will start from the pole in his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

Chase Briscoe, who won last weekend's South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, will start from the outside of the front row in Sunday's race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Tyler Reddick will start from the third position, while Ryan Blaney will lineup alongside him in the fourth position.

Austin Cindric, William Byron, Joey Logano, Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott, and Shane van Gisbergen will round out the top-10 starters on the grid for Sunday's Bank of America 400, the sixth race of the 10-race NASCAR Cup Series Chase.

Denny Hamlin, who comes into this race second in the standings and 40 points behind Larson, will have to start from the 12th position. Larson will definitely have an advantage to begin the race on Sunday. However, it should be noted that Hamlin started from the pole last weekend at Las Vegas only to lose points to Larson by the end of the day.

Official Bank of America 400 Starting Lineup

Pos	Car	Driver	Team	Make
1	5	Kyle Larson (C)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
2	19	Chase Briscoe (C)	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
3	45	Tyler Reddick (C)	23XI Racing	Toyota
4	12	Ryan Blaney (C)	Team Penske	Ford
5	2	Austin Cindric (C)	Team Penske	Ford
6	24	William Byron (C)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
7	22	Joey Logano (C)	Team Penske	Ford
8	23	Bubba Wallace (C)	23XI Racing	Toyota
9	9	Chase Elliott (C)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
10	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
11	77	Carson Hocevar (C)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
12	11	Denny Hamlin (C)	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
13	17	Chris Buescher (C)	RFK Racing	Ford
14	54	Ty Gibbs (C)	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
15	7	Daniel Suarez (C)	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
16	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
17	20	Christopher Bell (C)	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
18	16	AJ Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
19	71	Michael McDowell	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
20	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
21	35	Riley Herbst	23XI Racing	Toyota
22	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford
23	4	Noah Gragson	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
24	60	Ryan Preece (C)	RFK Racing	Ford
25	43	Erik Jones	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota
26	33	Austin Hill (i)	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
27	21	Josh Berry	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
28	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
29	42	John Hunter Nemechek	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota
30	41	Cole Custer	Haas Factory Team	Chevrolet
31	34	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
32	47	Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.	Hyak Motorsports	Chevrolet
33	10	Ty Dillon	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
34	38	Zane Smith	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
35	51	Cody Ware	Rick Ware Racing	Chevrolet
36	88	Connor Zilisch #	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
37	67	Corey Heim (i) *	23XI Racing	Toyota
38	66	Gray Gaulding (i) *	Garage 66	Ford
39	44	BJ McLeod *	NY Racing Team	Chevrolet

(C) indicates a Chase contender
# indicates a Rookie of the Year contender
(i) indicates a driver ineligible to score points
* indicates an "Open" entry

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