Alex Bowman topped the pace charts with a 15.142s lap, incomes his first pole place of the 2024 season. He beat teammate William Byron by 0.003s, however because of the manner the teams are break up, one other Hendrick driver — Kyle Larson — will begin on the entrance row.
“Studied onerous and labored onerous to return again right here and be higher,” stated Bowman, who enters this elimination race 41 factors above the cut-line. “We had been okay in observe. I really feel like I struggled on high of (Turns) 1 and a couple of slightly, however had a extremely superior automobile in qualifying. Simply actually pleased with everyone at Hendrick Motorsports. They gave me a extremely quick No. 48 Camaro. That is what mattered right this moment.”
Past the Hendrick trio, two drivers within the elimination zone will begin contained in the top-five with Martin Truex Jr. beginning fourth and Chase Briscoe fifth. Christopher Bell was sixth, Carson Hocevar seventh, Denny Hamlin eighth, Corey LaJoie ninth, and Chase Elliott tenth.
Playoff drivers beginning outdoors the top-ten: Ty Gibbs thirteenth; Tyler Reddick fifteenth; Joey Logano twentieth; Ryan Blaney twenty second; Brad Keselowski twenty third; Austin Cindric twenty seventh; Harrison Burton thirty fourth; Daniel Suarez thirty fifth.
Solely playoff drivers superior from Group A qualifying with Bell, Truex, Hamlin, Larson, and Elliott. Elliott really ran an an identical lap time to Ross Chastain, who missed out within the tiebreaker (factors).
Bowman, Briscoe, and Byron had been the one playoff drivers to advance from Group B qualifying. Spire Motorsports was spectacular with each LaJoie and Hocevar shifting ahead into the pole spherical.
Qualifying went with out incident, however there was a dramatic second throughout the first spherical as Bell almost misplaced management earlier than leaping to the highest of the charts on an early sizzling lap.
