Lightning decides Bristol starting lineup for the O’Reilly Series: Love on Pole

BRISTOL, Tenn. — For the second session in a row lightning has decided the starting lineup at Bristol.

This time, it’s Jesse Love who will start from the pole for the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series’ Food City 300.

Love will be joined by the driver who finished second to him at Gateway, Sheldon Creed. Creed enters the third race of the O’Reilly Series Chase as its leader by a slim margin.

His teammate Sam Mayer will start one position behind him from third. He will share the second row with Carson Kvapil.

Then its an all Joe Gibbs Racing third row. Taylor Gray will start fifth with Brent Crews sixth.

Parker Retzlaff will continue his first O’Reilly Series Chase from seventh. Then Sammy Smith travels to Bristol for the final time as a JR Motorsports driver.

Justin Allgaier looks to rebound and retake the championship lead from ninth. Finally, his teammate Rajah Caruth rounds out the top ten starters that were set via the NASCAR metric.

Notable Entrants

The final three Chase drivers who will start outside the top ten are led by Brandon Jones from 11th.

After problems throughout the race at Gateway, Austin Hill is slated to start from 20th.

Finally, Corey Day squabbled with William Sawalich for the second consecutive weekend in St. Louis which resulted in a DNF. The newly extended Hendrick Motorsports prospect will have a lot of work to do as he will start from 26th.

Jake Finch returns to the JRM No. 9 entry again this weekend. The metric has slotted him buried in the field from 36th.

There were 39 entrants hoping to get into the 38-car field. Therefore, the lone team going home will be SPS Motorsports’ No. 43 entry with Landon S. Huffman.

That group will have to regroup and look to make their series debut another time.

Below is the full starting lineup for the Food City 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Starting Lineup