Christopher Bell Leads Charge to Las Vegas Pole
LAS VEGAS — Christopher Bell continues to set the pace in NASCAR Cup Series qualifying.
Bell laid down a 29.980-second lap-time (186.335 mph) Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to capture the pole for Sunday’s South Point 400. It is his sixth pole of 2023 and fourth of the 2023 playoffs.
Bell now has 10 career NASCAR Cup Series poles, all since the start of 2022, and leads all drivers for poles in the Gen 7 car.
“We’ve done really well,” Bell said to The Racing Experts in reference to that. “My engineer, my crew chief, do a great job of getting my balance close.”
Bell will start alongside playoff driver Kyle Larson (28.990 seconds) on the front row.
William Byron (P), Martin Truex Jr. (P), and Chris Buescher (P) rounded out the Top-5 qualifiers.
Other Playoff drivers
8th – Tyler Reddick
12th – Ryan Blaney
15th – Denny Hamlin
The South Point 400 is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 15, at 2:30 p.m. ET. Tune in on NBC, PRN affiliates and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
(P) – indicates playoff driver
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.
You can reach Dominic at daragon@theracingexperts.net.