Starting Lineup: NCS Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma
Surprise, surprise (not really), Shane van Gisbergen secured his second pole of the NASCAR race weekend at Sonoma Raceway, and his fourth pole in the last two weeks as he took the pole position for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway.
SVG turned a fast lap of 74.594 seconds (96.040 mph) in Saturday's qualifying session, which was enough for the driver of the No. 88 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet to secure the pole over Chase Briscoe by 0.250 seconds. William Byron, Ross Chastain, and AJ Allmendinger rounded out the top-five fastest qualifiers in the session.
Here is the official starting lineup for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway. Race 20 of 36.
Pos | Car | Driver | Lap time | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 88 | Shane van Gisbergen # | 74.594 | -- |
2 | 19 | Chase Briscoe | 74.844 | 0.250 |
3 | 24 | William Byron | 75.025 | 0.431 |
4 | 1 | Ross Chastain | 75.087 | 0.493 |
5 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | 75.120 | 0.526 |
6 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | 75.128 | 0.534 |
7 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | 75.134 | 0.540 |
8 | 45 | Tyler Reddick | 75.176 | 0.582 |
9 | 48 | Alex Bowman | 75.233 | 0.639 |
10 | 20 | Christopher Bell | 75.243 | 0.649 |
11 | 5 | Kyle Larson | 75.254 | 0.660 |
12 | 38 | Zane Smith | 75.278 | 0.684 |
13 | 9 | Chase Elliott | 75.283 | 0.689 |
14 | 17 | Chris Buescher | 75.373 | 0.779 |
15 | 71 | Michael McDowell | 75.408 | 0.814 |
16 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | 75.437 | 0.843 |
17 | 8 | Kyle Busch | 75.475 | 0.881 |
18 | 42 | John Hunter Nemechek | 75.517 | 0.923 |
19 | 99 | Daniel Suarez | 75.563 | 0.969 |
20 | 60 | Ryan Preece | 75.589 | 0.995 |
21 | 6 | Brad Keselowski | 75.624 | 1.030 |
22 | 22 | Joey Logano | 75.629 | 1.035 |
23 | 77 | Carson Hocevar | 75.666 | 1.072 |
24 | 2 | Austin Cindric | 75.734 | 1.140 |
25 | 21 | Josh Berry | 75.836 | 1.242 |
26 | 10 | Ty Dillon | 76.033 | 1.439 |
27 | 41 | Cole Custer | 76.122 | 1.528 |
28 | 35 | Riley Herbst # | 76.254 | 1.660 |
29 | 7 | Justin Haley | 76.270 | 1.676 |
30 | 23 | Bubba Wallace | 76.275 | 1.681 |
31 | 43 | Erik Jones | 76.297 | 1.703 |
32 | 4 | Noah Gragson | 76.299 | 1.705 |
33 | 3 | Austin Cindric | 76.461 | 1.867 |
34 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 76.623 | 2.029 |
35 | 34 | Todd Gilliland | 76.732 | 2.138 |
36 | 51 | Cody Ware | 77.478 | 2.884 |
37 | 78 | Katherine Legge * | 0.000 | -- |
# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates "Open" entry
Toby Christie is the Editor-in-Chief of Racing America. He has 15 years of experience as a motorsports journalist and has been with Racing America since 2023.
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