For the second week in a row, Denny Hamlin is on the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race, this time at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.
Hamlin secured his spot in the Round of 8 after winning at Talladega Superspeedway last week.
Last year’s ROVAL victor Chase Elliott is also on the front row. Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski begins third, Kevin Harvick is fourth and Alex Bowman rounds out the top five.
Austin Dillon will wheel his No. 3 Chevrolet of Richard Childress Racing from the sixth position. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. starts seventh, while Keselowski’s teammate Joey Logano is eighth. Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch complete the top 10 starters.
The lineup was formed using a combination of four weighted categories: 35% rank in owner points, 25% driver’s finishing position, 25% owner’s end position and 15% fastest lap from the previous event.
Cup Starting Lineup for Charlotte ROVAL
The Bank of America ROVAL 400 starts Sunday, Oct. 11 at 2:30 p.m. ET and airs on NBC and PRN radio.
Joy joined Frontstretch in 2019 as a NASCAR DraftKings writer, expanding to news and iRacing coverage in 2020. She's currently an assistant editor and involved with photos, social media and news editing. A California native, Joy was raised watching motorsports and started watching NASCAR extensively in 2001. She earned her B.A. degree in Liberal Studies at California State University Bakersfield in 2010.