William Byron has won the lead for Sundays NASCAR Cup Series race at Road America.
Pre-race coverage begins Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on NBC with Countdown to Green. The race is scheduled to take the green flag at 2:40 p.m. ET.
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Byron, who was 11th-quickest in Saturdays practice, posted a lap of 110.359 miles per hour around the 14-turn, 4-mile road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin to record his 6th career Cup pole.
” We struggled a bit off the truck (Saturday), however we had some excellent modifications in mind,” Byron informed CNBC. “It was quickly in race trim the last run … Weve struggled this year on road courses and kinda got back to a standard setup and put it all together today.”
Hendrick Motorsports colleague Kyle Larson, who won the most recent Cup road course race at Sonoma, will begin alongside Byron on the front row.
Behind them in Row 2 will be Xfinity regular A.J. Allmendinger and Tyler Reddick.
Reddick had a possible pole-winning lap in the last moments of qualifying prior to going large at Turn 12. He later on spun in the final corner, Turn 14, to finish his lap.
Ruling Xfinity champ Austin Cindric will start 5th. Denny Hamlin will begin sixth.
The preliminary of certifying was red-flagged twice for Kyle Tilley and Bubba Wallace stopping on track in separate cases.
Reigning Cup champ Chase Elliott, winner in five of the last 7 Cup roadway course races, had a prospective flyer nullified on both occasions.
After the green returned out with less than two minutes to go in the round, he didnt make it back to the start/finish line in time to start a correct lap. As a result, he will begin 34th.
” Yesterday in practice, we had a couple incidents and NASCAR included a bit of time, so our only hope was that they would include a bit of time to let the people on pit road make it back around,” Elliott told NBCSN.
” Thats a gamble, and I dont anticipate them to do that. But you likewise have actually to be prepared because circumstance. Simply among those situations where I do not understand what you truly do it. Simply go on down the roadway and hope the race is better and hope our vehicles where it requires to be.”
Seven automobiles will go to the back for the start of Sundays race.
Kyle Busch and Ryan Preece were already heading there in backup cars after events in Saturday practice. Now joining them are Wallace (transmission), Tilley (unapproved adjustments), Justin Haley (engine) and Josh Bilicki (unapproved adjustments).
Quin Houff (unapproved adjustments) was likewise verified to go to the rear minutes prior to Sundays green flag.