Austin Hill leads all-RCR front row for Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega
LINCOLN, ALA. — Polesitter Austin Hill will share the front row with his RCR teammate in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega.
Austin Hill ran a lap 0.239 seconds faster than Sheldon Creed.
Hill now has five front-row starts in the last six races at Talladega and Daytona, including poles at Daytona in February and at Talladega last October.
Sheldon Creed qualified second and earned his first front-row start at either Talladega or Daytona. Creed has never started outside of the top 10 in an Xfinity Series race at either track.
Creed beat John Hunter Nemechek by 0.121 seconds. Nemechek’s No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing car was the only Toyota in the top 10, in third.
Brett Moffitt’s No. 25 AM Racing car was the only Ford in the top 10, in 10th. Moffitt’s lap was 0.684 seconds slower than Hill’s pole-winning lap.
On the other end, Jason White, David Starr, Mike Harmon and Jesse Iwuji did not qualify for Saturday’s race.
The full starting lineup is as follows:
- Austin Hill
- Sheldon Creed
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Parker Retzlaff
- Jade Buford
- Anthony Alfredo
- Justin Allgaier
- Jeb Burton
- Daniel Hemric
- Brett Moffitt
- Chandler Smith
- Sammy Smith
- Ryan Truex
- Derek Kraus
- Riley Herbst
- Sam Mayer
- Brennan Poole
- Cole Custer
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Josh Berry
- Brandon Jones
- Dexter Stacey
- Josh Williams
- Parker Chase
- Joe Graf Jr
- Gray Gaulding
- Kyle Sieg
- Caesar Bacarella
- Garrett Smithley
- Kaz Grala
- Ryan Sieg
- C.J. McLaughlin
- Joey Gase
- Blaine Perkins
- Josh Bilicki
- Ryan Ellis
- Jeremy Clements
- Parker Kligerman
Catch the Ag-Pro 300 at Talladega Speedway, 4 p.m. ET, Saturday, April 22 (TV: FS1; Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Ch. 90). Noah Gragson and A.J. Allmendinger won the Xfinity Series races at Talladega.
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