Starting Lineup: NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 at Richmond

Ryan Preece, who is looking to lock himself into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, secured his second career pole position. The driver of the No. 60 RFK Racing Ford turned a lap time of 22.244 seconds (121.381 mph) to defeat Tyler Reddick for the pole.

AJ Allmendinger, Denny Hamlin, and Chase Elliott rounded out the top-five qualifiers.

Here is the official starting lineup for Saturday night's Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway. Race 25 of 36.

Pos	Car	Driver	Lap time	Speed
1	60	Ryan Preece	22.244	121.381
2	45	Tyler Reddick *	22.331	120.908
3	16	AJ Allmendinger	22.341	120.854
4	11	Denny Hamlin	22.347	120.822
5	9	Chase Elliott	22.361	120.746
6	6	Brad Keselowski	22.362	120.741
7	23	Bubba Wallace *	22.379	120.649
8	20	Christopher Bell	22.384	120.622
9	48	Alex Bowman	22.397	120.552
10	71	Michael McDowell	22.406	120.503
11	3	Austin Dillon	22.426	120.396
12	17	Chris Buescher	22.430	120.374
13	2	Austin Cindric	22.442	120.310
14	24	William Byron	22.461	120.208
15	77	Carson Hocevar	22.501	119.995
16	10	Ty Dillon	22.506	119.968
17	21	Josh Berry	22.516	119.915
18	43	Erik Jones	22.526	119.861
19	19	Chase Briscoe	22.545	119.760
20	12	Ryan Blaney	22.548	119.745
21	4	Noah Gragson *	22.549	119.739
22	99	Daniel Suarez	22.549	119.739
23	54	Ty Gibbs	22.553	119.718
24	41	Cole Custer	22.577	119.591
25	7	Justin Haley	22.608	119.427
26	35	Riley Herbst # *	22.608	119.427
27	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	22.646	119.226
28	8	Kyle Busch	22.679	119.053
29	38	Zane Smith *	22.680	119.048
30	5	Kyle Larson	22.692	118.985
31	34	Todd Gilliland *	22.725	118.812
32	67	Corey Heim * (i)	22.747	118.697
33	1	Ross Chastain	22.755	118.655
34	42	John Hunter Nemechek	22.823	118.302
35	33	Jesse Love * (i)	22.831	118.260
36	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	22.842	118.203
37	51	Cody Ware	22.947	117.662
38	22	Joey Logano	0.000	0.000

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

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