Ty Gibbs posts best Cup Series qualifying effort
LAS VEGAS — Ty Gibbs will have his best career NASCAR Cup Series start this Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Gibbs No. 54 Toyota posted a lap time of 29.262 seconds (184.54 average MPH) during the second round of qualifying Saturday, good enough for the fourth-fastest lap time among the competition.
Gibbs’ previous best start was sixth last October at Homestead-Miami Speedway during his interim fill-in duties for Kurt Busch.
Polesitter Joey Logano will lead the field to the green flag with William Byron to his outside. Ryan Blaney, Ty Gibbs and Kyle Busch round out the Top-5 qualifiers.
MORE: Joey Logano takes pole at Las Vegas
The Pennzoil 400 is scheduled for Sunday, March 5 at 3:30 p.m. ET.
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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.
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