A familiar driver will be at the front of the Cup Series starting lineup after Chase Briscoe won the pole at Kansas Speedway.
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The newest addition to the Joe Gibbs Racing lineup won the pole with a lap of 29.987 seconds. This is his seventh pole win of the season and his first since Iowa Speedway. Briscoe also won the pole at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, the last 1.5-mile track where the drivers raced.
No driver has won the pole more times than Briscoe in a single season in the Gen 7 era.
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Denny Hamlin qualified second with a lap of 30.088 seconds. The rest of the top 10 included Kyle Larson (30.101), Chase Elliott (30.157), Christopher Bell (30.165), Carson Hocevar (30.228), Bubba Wallace (30.274), Ty Gibbs (30.289), Ross Chastain (30.292), and Erik Jones (30.314).
Eight of the 12 playoff drivers qualified inside the top 10. Tyler Reddick qualified the best among the remaining four. He will line up 12th after posting a lap of 30.328 seconds.
Austin Cindric qualified 26th with a lap of 30.589 seconds after tagging the wall on his qualifying lap and sustaining slight damage on the No. 2 Team Penske Ford. Joey Logano qualified 35th at 30.589 seconds after struggling with handling on his lap.
Ryan Blaney did not qualify for Sunday's playoff race. He blew a tire and slammed into the outside wall. He will have to go to a backup car and start last in the 37-car lineup.
"I think we'll probably have to do some damage repair on that for tomorrow, so definitely not ideal from a starting position standpoint, or at least starting on track," Cindric said. "I don't know how the lap looked.
"It felt like it was a pretty good lap going, so it's a shame. I can't say I was really expecting it to step out like that, but that's how it goes. It's been a pretty challenging day for the team and a pretty important race tomorrow."
The Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway will begin at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, Sept. 28. USA Network will provide coverage as the championship-eligible drivers attempt to join Blaney in the Round of 8.
Larson won this season's spring race at Kansas Speedway. He has captured the checkered flag at the 1.5-mile track three times since the 2021 season. Chastain won last season's playoff race while Reddick won the 2023 playoff race. Wallace won the 2022 playoff race. Hamlin won the 2023 spring race.
