Yahoo Autos Reddick claims Brickyard 400 pole
Tyler Reddick transferred his pace from NASCAR Cup Series practice into a pole win for Sunday’s Brickyard 400.
Reddick took the top spot as the final driver in qualifying with a lap of 181.932 mph (49.469 seconds) around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It is Reddick’s eighth pole in the series, second of the season and first at Indianapolis.
Denny Hamlin will join Reddick, who drives one of the cars Hamlin owns, on the front row. Hamlin qualified second at 181.492mph.
Chase Elliott qualified third (181.803 mph), William Byron qualified fourth (180.155 mph), and Kyle Larson was fifth (181.298 mph). Ty Gibbs qualified sixth (180.043 mph) and Ryan Blaney took seventh (179.849 mph).
Michael McDowell qualified eighth (178.898 mph), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was ninth (173.859 mph) and John Hunter Nemechek rounded out the top 10 (178.462 mph). Nemechek matched his season-best qualifying effort from Daytona, which makes it the second time he’s advanced to the final round of qualifying.
Martin Truex Jr. qualified 14th and AJ Allmendinger was 15th. Bubba Wallace took 17th, Christopher Bell 18th and Chase Briscoe 20th. Brad Keselowski, the most recent oval winner in the starting lineup, qualified 26th.
Ross Chastain qualified 28th. Chastain enters Sunday’s race as the driver on the playoff grid bubble.
Jimmie Johnson qualified 33rd and Kyle Busch qualified 34th. Austin Cindric qualified 38th after hitting the wall in two different parts of the track during his run.
UP NEXT: The Brickyard 400 at 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday on NBC.
