Joey Logano earns second Pennzoil 400 pole in a row
LAS VEGAS — For the second year in a row, Joey Logano put his No. 22 Pennzoil Ford on the pole for the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Logano ran a lap averaging 184.357 MPH around the 1.5-mile oval. With that pole-winning lap, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion has now either started or finished first in five of the last six years at Las Vegas:
- Spring 2024: Pole
- Spring 2023: Pole
- Fall 2022: Win
- Spring 2020: Win
- Spring 2019: Win
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Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Pennzoil Ford, poses with the winner sticker in Victory Lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil Oil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 3, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: 360628Sarah Crabill/Getty Images
This is the 30th pole Logano has earned in his Cup career. He is now one of 21 drivers in NASCAR history to earn 30 Cup poles and 30 wins — the 30/30 club, as Kurt Busch coined it.
Kyle Larson will start second Sunday. He hasn’t finished any worse than second in the last three spring races.
Austin Cindric will start third Sunday. It is his best start since starting third at Circuit of the Americas last season. Last season, he had six top-10 starts in the first eight races. This season, he has had top-10 starts in all three races so far.
Chase Briscoe starts sixth. Briscoe hasn’t started this well at a traditional intermediate track since starting fourth in the spring Las Vegas race two years ago.
Outside of the top-10, Carson Hocevar earned his best starting spot on a non-drafting-track. He starts 14th.
Hocevar’s 14th-place start is tied for Spire Motorsports’ fifth-best Cup Series qualifying effort on a non-drafting track.
Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Starting Lineup
- Joey Logano
- Kyle Larson
- Austin Cindric
- William Byron
- Bubba Wallace
- Chase Briscoe
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Ty Gibbs
- Chris Buescher
- Christopher Bell
- Chase Elliott
- Michael McDowell
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Carson Hocevar
- Ryan Blaney
- Daniel Suarez
- Corey LaJoie
- Tyler Reddick
- Austin Dillon
- Ross Chastain
- Kyle Busch
- Erik Jones
- Alex Bowman
- Zane Smith
- Brad Keselowski
- Josh Berry
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Denny Hamlin
- Harrison Burton
- Noah Gragson
- Todd Gilliland
- Kaz Grala
- Derek Kraus
- Daniel Hemric
- Justin Haley
- Ryan Preece
- J.J. Yeley
What to Know for the Pennzoil 400
The Pennzoil 400 goes green just after 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN affiliates and SIRIUS XM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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