Stenhouse nets best qualifying effort of 2018
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s third-place qualifying effort Friday at ISM Raceway netted the Roush Fenway Racing driver his highest start in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race this year.
Stenhouse Jr. posted the third-fastest time in the third round of qualifying, a 25.898 second lap time (139.007 mph).
The third-place start is Stenhouse’s highest since winning the pole at Talladega Superspeedway in May 2017 and his first top-10 start since Daytona in July.
Stenhouse, through 34 races this year, has earned three top-five finishes and five top-10 finishes with a best finish of third at Talladega last month. He ranks 18th in driver’s standings with two races left in the season.
The Can-Am 500 will be televised live Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
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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.
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