NASCAR: Byron wins pole for Sunday’s HighPoint.com 400
Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron collected his third pole of the season during Saturday’s qualifying for the HighPoint.com 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway.
Byron (No. 24 RaptorTough.com Chevrolet) earned the pole in the 10-driver final round of qualifying with a lap of 170.629 miles per hour (52.746 secs.) on the 2.5-mile trioval. It was his second pole in 10 races at Pocono Raceway – the other came in 2019 – and 11th of his career. Byron will lead the 36-car field to the green for Sunday’s HighPoint.com 400 beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET (TV: USA, Radio: MRN, SiriusXM).
Joining Byron on the front row is Cup Series points leader Martin Truex Jr. (No. 19 Interstate Batteries Toyota), whose lap of 170.235 mph (52.868) was .122 of a second shy of the pole-winning run.
Hendrick Motorsports also took the third qualifying spot with Kyle Larson (No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet), who recorded a lap of 170.074 mph (52.918). Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick (No. 4 Busch Light Peach Ford), who leads all active drivers in career starts at Pocono Raceway, will make his 44th and final Cup start at “The Tricky Triangle” from the fourth starting position (169.750 mph/53.019).
Christopher Bell (No. 20 Yahoo! Toyota) joined his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Truex Jr. among the top-five qualifiers with his lap of 169.645 mph (53.052).