Regardless of his struggles all through a lot of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Collection season, Joey Logano is lastly turning up the wick.
Logano gained the pole for Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 over 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick, who bumped Logano’s teammate, Ryan Blaney, off the entrance row within the closing moments of qualifying.
For Logano, a win might save a season that has not gone to plan for the No. 22 staff. Logano comes into the weekend 18th in NASCAR’s playoff standings, 14 factors out of the postseason. With a win locking you into the NASCAR playoffs, all it takes is one good weekend to alter the outlook of a season.
The aforementioned Blaney will begin third in Sunday’s race in an try to avenge his heartbreaking defeat at St. Louis one week in the past. Highway-course ace Chase Elliott will begin fourth because the highest-starting Hendrick Motorsports automotive, with all 4 HMS vehicles cracking the ultimate spherical of qualifying.
Kyle Larson, who broken his automotive on his preliminary qualifying run, was capable of exit for one last lap because the session wound down. Regardless of heavy injury to the left-rear of Larson’s No. 5 Camaro, he nonetheless managed to place his automotive fifth on the grid for Sunday’s race. It’s at present unknown whether or not or not Larson might want to go to a backup automotive for the race, as he can be relegated to a last-place begin if a backup is required.
COTA winner William Byron certified sixth, with 2022 Sonoma winner Daniel Suarez qualifying seventh. Suarez’s seventh-place begin on Sunday is definitely his greatest qualifying effort of 2024, with a earlier greatest begin on the season of thirteenth on the Daytona 500.
Whereas he was the worst of the Hendrick Motorsports vehicles, Alex Bowman nonetheless certified eighth, getting free on his last run and practically hitting the identical wall that broken Larson’s left-rear. Ross Chastain, teammate of Suarez at Trackhouse Racing, certified ninth, whereas Ty Gibbs, who will begin second in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Collection race at Sonoma certified tenth.
Different notable qualifying outcomes embody road-course ringer AJ Allmendinger in eleventh, 2023 Sonoma winner Martin Truex Jr. in twenty first, St. Louis winner Austin Cindric in twenty eighth and Australian Supercar regulars Will Brown and Cam Waters in twenty fourth and thirty first, respectively. Legacy Motor Membership drivers John Hunter Nemechek and Erik Jones will make up the final row, beginning thirty seventh and thirty eighth.
The Toyota/Save Mart 350 will go inexperienced at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sunday. The race will air on Fox, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
