Ryan Preece put down a spectacular lap at Richmond Raceway, incomes pole place for the penultimate race of the common season. Preece enters the race 34 factors beneath the cut-line within the struggle to make the playoffs, however he’ll begin Saturday’s race with an incredible alternative to attain some important stage factors.
“Nice changes by Derrick [Finley, crew chief] and everybody on this Ford Mustang,” stated Preece, who now has two poles in his Cup Sequence profession. “I can not thank RFK sufficient for the chance. What a race automotive. It may not have proven up in follow, nevertheless it did in qualifying.”
Preece lapped the Virginia brief monitor in 22.244 seconds, incomes pole by 0.087s over Tyler Reddick, who will be part of him on the entrance row within the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota. RFK Racing hasn’t began a Cup race from pole place since Texas Motor Speedway in September of 2022.
A.J. Allmendinger was very spectacular as effectively, rebounding from a problem in pre-qualifying inspection to time in third. Denny Hamlin ended up fourth, and Chase Elliott fifth. Brad Keselowski, Bubba Wallace, Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman, and Michael McDowell crammed out the rest of the highest ten.
Preece’s RFK Racing teammate Chris Buescher, who holds the sixteenth and closing spot within the playoffs through factors, certified twelfth.
The qualifying session noticed instances get progressively quicker because the session carried on, and Preece was the twenty ninth driver on monitor.
Justin Haley, Erik Jones, and Shane van Gisbergen all touched the wall on the exit of Flip 4 as they pushed their vehicles to absolutely the restrict.
Joey Logano, who wrecked in follow attributable to a proper entrance tire failure, had extra points in qualifying. Crew Penske tried to restore the automotive, however he needed to abandon the lap attributable to a extreme tire rub.
Watch: Joey Logano makes onerous contact with wall after right-front tire subject
Austin Dillon, who received this race one yr in the past in controversial vogue, certified eleventh. His Richard Childress Racing teammate Kyle Busch led the way in which in follow, however qualifying didn’t go as effectively for him as he ended up twenty eighth.
Kyle Larson was one other shock deep within the area, as the driving force of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet will begin thirtieth.
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