Chase Briscoe won the Busch Light Pole Award on Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, turning a lap of 182.852 mph around the 1.5-mile track. Briscoe will start on the front row alongside Kyle Larson, who qualified second, for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 (6 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
For Briscoe, it was his second pole win of the season (Daytona 500), fourth of his career and first at Charlotte. For Larson, it was a good start to a weekend where he is attempting to run the double of the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600.
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William Byron, Chris Buescher and AJ Allmendinger rounded out the top five qualifiers on Saturday. John Hunter Nemechek, Ty Gibbs, Noah Gragson, Alex Bowman and Christopher Bell qualified sixth through 10th for Sunday’s crown jewel race, which will be the first broadcast by Prime Video.
Carson Hocevar spun coming out of Turn 4 in the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet and was 39th in qualifying.
Tyler Reddick brushed the wall running the high line in the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota and was 12th in qualifying.
Ross Chastain, who wrecked in practice, did not make a qualifying run as the team will go to a backup car.
Practice recap
Saturday began with an hour-long practice split into two 25-minute group sessions with a 10-minute break in between. Hocevar led Group 1 with a speed of 180.445 mph while Reddick led Group 2 at 178.897 mph.
The top 10 overall were Hocevar, Ty Gibbs, Allmendinger, Denny Hamlin, Reddick, Erik Jones, Bubba Wallace, Byron, Chastain and Michael McDowell.
Chastain led the groups in consecutive 10-lap averages. Allmendinger, Gibbs, Hocevar and Keselowski completed the top five there.
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In Group 2, Chastain hit the wall hard coming out of Turn 3 and brought out a red flag. The No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet was towed to the garage, and Chastain was evaluated and released from the infield care center.
Kyle Busch never made it on track in Group 2 as the Richard Childress Racing crew had the hood up on the No. 8 Chevrolet on pit road.
This story will be updated.
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