NCTS: Rain cancels St. Pete qualifying, Connor Mosack on pole

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series took to the slick streets of St. Pete for the first time in series history but rain became the headline for today’s sessions.

Since the rain shortened the day’s events, the starting lineup will be set by the NASCAR metric.

Connor Mosack will inherit the pole with Gio Ruggiero alongside him on the front row.

Many familiar faces, Indycar legends, and road course ringers gathered for this weekend.

From the Indycar realm is Dario Franchitti driving for Tricon Garage with his chief aggravation officer Jimmie Johnson on top of the box. They start sixth in the race after their short warm-up session together.

James Hinchcliffe also joins this weekend, taking over the No. 77 Spire Motorsports truck from Carson Hocevar. He will be accompanied by new Spire teammate, Connor Mosack, making his first of 12 events as the teammates start fourth and first respectively.

Then the reigning zMAX CARS Tour Pro Late Model Series champion, Ben Maier will make his Truck Series debut in the No. 4 entry for Niece Motorsports. He showed great speed in the limited running but will start 35th due to the metric.

IMSA regular Colin Braun also joined the fun as RAM’s free agent driver and was only able to get one lap, not even up to speed, in his No. 25 RAM. He will start near the middle of the bunch in 16th.

From the limited running in practice, Kaden Honeycutt set the fastest time with a 78.922 lap time. Maier slotted his truck in second with a 79.740. Ben Rhodes, James “Jimmy Hinch” Hinchcliffe, and Ty Majseki rounded out the top five runners in the short session.

The full starting lineup for the OnlyBulls Green Flag 150 at St. Petersburg is below.

Starting Lineup and Practice Results

1. Connor Mosack
2. Gio Ruggiero
3. James Hinchcliffe
4. Ben Rhodes
5. Chandler Smith
6. Dario Franchitti
7. Wesley Slimp
8. Landen Lewis
9. Jake Garcia
10. Adam Andretti
11. Justin Haley
12. Daniel Dye
13. Tyler Andrum
14. Andres Perez De Lara
15. Brenden Queen
16. Colin Braun
17. Stewart Friesen
18. Tyler Reif
19. Kaden Honeycutt
20. Kris Wright
21. Mini Tyrell
22. Ty Majeski
23. Frankie Muniz
24. Jackson Lee
25. Grant Enfinger
26. Carter Fartuch
27. Nathan Nicholson
28. Layne Riggs
29. Tanner Gray
30. Cole Butcher
31. Christian Eckes
32. Derek White
33. Dawson Sutton
34. Daniel Hemric
35. Ben Maier
36. Timmy Hill