Chase Briscoe is on the pole for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway after inclement weather forced NASCAR to cancel all on-track activity for Friday (March 18). Cup Series practice will take the place of qualifying on Saturday so the starting lineup was set by the rulebook, last year’s metric formula.
Briscoe won his first Cup event at Phoenix Raceway last week.
Ryan Blaney will start next to Briscoe on the front row, while Blaney’s Team Penske teammate Joey Logano slots in third. Kyle Busch and Tyler Reddick round out the top five positions.
Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott begins sixth, Trackhouse Racing Team’s Ross Chastain is seventh and Briscoe’s Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Kevin Harvick lines up eighth. Kurt Busch and Aric Almirola complete the top 10.
Here’s how the lineup was formed for Sunday’s race: 50% from where the driver finished last week, 35% from the car owner’s points and 15% from the driver’s fastest lap in last week’s race.
Cup Starting Lineup for Atlanta
Cup practice for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta airs on Saturday, March 19 at 12:40 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1. The race runs at 3 p.m. ET on FOX.
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.