Denny Hamlin scored the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway.
With a lap of 77.719 seconds or 92.178 mph, Hamlin placed his No. 11 Sports Clips Toyota Camry at the front of the field where he will be joined by Tyler Reddick.
With the pole, Hamlin becomes the first driver to sit on the pole at Sonoma not named Kyle Larson since Carl Edwards did so in 2019. In fact the 16th place start means Larson will not start in the top five for the first time in his career at Sonoma.
On Saturday the Cup Series ran a practice and their qualifying session between an Xfinity Series qualifying session and the Door Dash 250.
The Cup Series race on Sunday will be made up of 110 laps around the 1.99-mile track for a total of 218.9 miles. TV and streaming coverage will air on FOX beginning at 3:30 pm ET with PRN and SiriusXM having the radio call.
Sonoma Cup Series Starting Lineup
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POSITION
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BEST SPEED
|
BEST TIME
|
BEHIND
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
D. Hamlin#11
|
92.178
|
77.719
|
Leader
|
|
2 |
T. Reddick#45
|
92.068
|
77.812
|
0.093
|
|
3 |
M. McDowell#34
|
92.060
|
77.819
|
0.100
|
|
4 |
C. Bell#20
|
91.877
|
77.974
|
0.255
|
|
5 |
A. Allmendinger#16
|
91.873
|
77.977
|
0.258
|
|
6 |
T. Gibbs#54
|
91.819
|
78.023
|
0.304
|
|
7 |
C. Buescher#17
|
91.811
|
78.030
|
0.311
|
|
8 |
M. Truex Jr#19
|
91.736
|
78.094
|
0.375
|
|
9 |
D. Suárez#99
|
91.449
|
78.339
|
0.620
|
|
10 |
C. Elliott#9
|
91.308
|
78.460
|
0.741
|
|
11 |
A. Dillon#3
|
91.780
|
78.056
|
0.337
|
|
12 |
K. Busch#8
|
91.703
|
78.122
|
0.403
|
|
13 |
R. Stenhouse Jr#47
|
91.425
|
78.359
|
0.640
|
|
14 |
A. Bowman#48
|
91.380
|
78.398
|
0.679
|
|
15 |
R. Chastain#1
|
91.347
|
78.426
|
0.707
|
|
16 |
K. Larson#5
|
91.341
|
78.431
|
0.712
|
|
17 |
J. Logano#22
|
91.289
|
78.476
|
0.757
|
|
18 |
B. Wallace#23
|
91.254
|
78.506
|
0.787
|
|
19 |
C. LaJoie#7
|
91.126
|
78.616
|
0.897
|
|
20 |
A. Almirola#10
|
91.087
|
78.650
|
0.931
|
|
21 |
K. Harvick#4
|
91.052
|
78.680
|
0.961
|
|
22 |
R. Preece#41
|
91.052
|
78.680
|
0.961
|
|
23 |
J. Haley#31
|
90.995
|
78.730
|
1.011
|
|
24 |
C. Briscoe#14
|
90.958
|
78.762
|
1.043
|
|
25 |
B. Keselowski#6
|
90.707
|
78.980
|
1.261
|
|
26 |
W. Byron#24
|
90.569
|
79.100
|
1.381
|
|
27 |
T. Dillon#77
|
90.525
|
79.138
|
1.419
|
|
28 |
E. Jones#43
|
90.311
|
79.326
|
1.607
|
|
29 |
J. Bilicki#78
|
90.261
|
79.370
|
1.651
|
|
30 |
Z. Smith#38
|
90.115
|
79.498
|
1.779
|
|
31 |
R. Blaney#12
|
90.001
|
79.599
|
1.880
|
|
32 |
T. Gilliland#51
|
89.862
|
79.722
|
2.003
|
|
33 |
A. Lally#15
|
89.789
|
79.787
|
2.068
|
|
34 |
A. Cindric#2
|
89.718
|
79.850
|
2.131
|
|
35 |
G. Enfinger#42
|
89.301
|
80.223
|
2.504
|
|
36 |
H. Burton#21
|
89.148
|
80.361
|
2.642
|
