SONOMA, Cali — The qualifying order for the Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway has been set. This year, NASCAR changed qualifying at both road courses on the Sprint Cup schedule. The cars were assigned to groups based on their practice speeds from Friday. Slowest to fastest. Within those groups, cars will be separated fastest to slowest and released at intervals. Each group will have a window in which cars can complete their qualifying each likely receiving three laps at full speed. A car’s fastest lap will count and the field will be set based upon overall qualifying speeds.
Qualifying is set for 2:00 pm EST on Saturday, live on SPEED.
GROUP 1.
David Stremme
Victor Gonzalez Jr.
Justin Marks
Paulie Harraka
JJ Yeley
Tomy Drissi
GROUP 2.
David Ragan
David Gilliland
Boris Said
David Reutimann
Josh WIse
Alex Kennedy
GROUP 3.
Ron Fellows
Dale Earnahrdt Jr.
Justin Bowles
Ricky Stenhhouse Jr.
Jacques Villeneuve
Danica Patrick
GROUP 4.
Jimmie Johnson
Jeff Burton
Travis Kvapil
Bobby Labonte
Aric Almirola
GROUP 5.
Ryan Newman
Matt Kenseth
Kyle Busch
Carl Edwards
Kasey Kahne
GROUP 6.
Jeff Gordon
Kevin Harvick
Denny Hamlin
Tony Stewart
Paul Menard
GROUP 7.
Greg Biffle
Brad Keselowski
Clint Bowyer
Martin Truex Jr.
Joey Logano
GROUP 8.
Marcos Ambrose
Juan Pablo Montoya
Casey Mears
Kurt Busch
Jamie McMurray
