NASCAR Cup qualifying results and lineup: Briscoe earns 6th pole of 2025
NEWTON, Iowa. — For the sixth time in 23 NASCAR Cup Series races in 2025, Chase Briscoe will lead the field to the green flag.
Briscoe won the pole for Sunday’s Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway. It took him 23.004 seconds to run around the 7/8-mile D-shaped oval, averaging 136.933 MPH around the corn-surrounded track.
Briscoe won the pole for the Daytona 500 in February, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte in May, the Nashville and Michigan races in June and last week in the Brickyard 400. He is the first driver to earn six or more poles in 23 races since Kyle Busch in 2017. Busch earned eight poles in 2017.
Briscoe is the 15th driver since 2000 to win six or more poles in a single NASCAR Cup Series season. With a seventh pole, he’d become the seventh driver since 2000 to earn seven or more poles in a single season.
Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron and Kyle Larson were the only other drivers to run in the 23.0-second range. Byron ran around Iowa Speedway in 23.088 seconds, just one-thousandth-of-a-second faster than Larson.
With Chase Elliott starting eighth, three of the four Hendrick Motorsports cars will start in the top-16 starting spots. Alex Bowman will start 16th, to the outside of Brickyard 400 winner Bubba Wallace who will start 15th.
Besides Briscoe, the highest-starting Toyota is Wallace’s car owner, Denny Hamlin, who starts 11th. Teammates Christopher Bell and Ty Gibbs will start 17th and 20th, respectively.
The other Toyotas will start 22nd (Tyler Reddick), 24th (Riley Herbst), 25th (Erik Jones) and 29th (John Hunter Nemechek).
Being mathematically near the playoff cutline, Reddick, Bowman and Gibbs will be watching for Brad Keselowski, Carson Hocevar, A.J. Allmendinger and Justin Haley, who all qualified in the top-10. None of them have a win yet this season and are currently not locked into the playoffs.
They will all start ahead of Kyle Busch. Busch will start in the rear of the field after crashing in practice.
NASCAR Cup Series at Iowa Speedway Qualifying Results and Starting Lineup
- Chase Briscoe: 23.004 seconds
- William Byron: 23.088
- Kyle Larson 23.089
- Austin Cindric 23.1010
- Brad Keselowski 23.119
- Ryan Blaney 23.151
- Carson Hocevar 23.159
- Chase Elliott 23.165
- A.J. Allmendinger 23.174
- Justin Haley 23.198
- Denny Hamlin 23.219
- Josh Berry 23.230
- Michael McDowell 23.238
- Joey Logano 23.245
- Bubba Wallace 23.247
- Alex Bowman 23.255
- Christopher Bell 23.268
- Austin Dillon 23.271
- Cole Custer 23.296
- Ty Gibbs 23.306
- Shane van Gisbergen 23.308
- Tyler Reddick 23.322
- Zane Smith 23.338
- Riley Herbst 23.363
- Erik Jones 23.365
- Daniel Suarez 23.396
- Chris Buescher 23.398
- Ross Chastain 23.402
- John Hunter Nemechek 23.439
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 23.459
- Noah Gragson 23.509
- Ty Dillon 23.526
- Ryan Preece 23.538
- Todd Gilliland 23.631
- Cody Ware 23.633
- Joey Gase 25.173
- Kyle Busch No Time
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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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