Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell snagged the Busch Light Pole Award for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Bell’s No. 20 Toyota set the quickest time at 96.034 mph for the 14th pole of his Cup Series career. He bested three drivers from Hendrick Motorsports — Chase Elliott (95.951 mph), Alex Bowman (95.937 mph) and Kyle Larson (95.854 mph). Denny Hamlin (95.840 mph) rounded out the top five.
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Chris Buescher (95.840 mph), Joey Logano (95.820 mph), Bubba Wallace (95.801 mph), Tyler Reddick (95.733 mph) and William Byron 95.723 mph) completed the top 10.
Wallace fastest in practice
Toyota swept the top three spots in practice as 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace topped the leaderboard at 94.139 mph, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Christopher Bell (93.873 mph) and Denny Hamlin (93.826 mph).
Carson Hocevar (93.757 mph) and Cole Custer (93.743 mph) rounded out the top five.
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Kyle Larson (93.724 mph), William Byron (93.719 mph), Ryan Preece (93.604 mph), Shane van Gisbergen (93.576 mph) and Chase Elliott (93.543 mph) completed the top 10.
Only one incident stopped practice in Group 2 when Justin Haley saw the hood on his No. 7 Chevrolet pop up, covering the windshield and forcing the Spire Motorsports driver to come down pit road for his crew to fasten the hood.
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