CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Briscoe turned his latest qualifying struggles round by profitable the pole for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 throughout qualifying Saturday afternoon at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The driving force of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota turned a lap of 29.532 seconds at 182.852 mph to earn his second pole of the season and the fourth of his NASCAR Cup Collection profession.
Briscoe was centered this weekend on bettering his qualifying effort.
“I really feel just like the group has executed the identical factor all yr, it’s simply me not driving laborious sufficient, in truth. I talked about it yesterday,” Briscoe stated. “This automotive simply has a lot potential that I’m simply not used to having the ability to do the issues that this automotive will do as a result of prior to now my automotive would – have a look at final yr right here, I plugged the fence down coming off of flip 4 making an attempt to do what I simply did there.
“Simply the aptitude of this automotive is a lot greater than I‘ve ran my whole profession, and it has simply taken a couple of months to get to used to that, so, hopefully, this may sort of be the beginning of regular, qualifying and competing for poles. It’s positively a pleasant turnaround from what we’ve had.”
Briscoe’s pole marks the second consecutive yr a Toyota captured the highest spot in Coca-Cola 600 qualifying. Ty Gibbs, Briscoe’s teammate, earned the pole final yr.
Kyle Larson – who will compete within the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday – will begin second after a 29.552-second run on Saturday.
William Byron, Chris Buescher and A.J. Allmendinger rounded out the highest 5.
John Hunter Nemechek’s LEGACY Motor Membership Toyota will roll off sixth Sunday with Gibbs seventh and Noah Gragson eighth. Alex Bowman and defending Coca-Cola 600 winner Christopher Bell accomplished the highest 10.
4-time Coca-Cola 600 winner Jimmie Johnson – making his 700th NASCAR Cup Collection begin on Sunday – certified seventeenth.
Ross Chastain crashed in follow on Saturday and didn’t put up a time. Chastain will begin fortieth on Sunday.
