Talladega Weekend Features Altered Qualifying Format
Getty NASCAR will utilize an alternate passing configuration at Talladega Superspeedway. 사설토토
NASCAR gets back to Talladega Superspeedway on April 23 and 24 for a tripleheader end of the week highlighting the ARCA Menards Series, Xfinity Series, and Cup Series. The weekend will highlight a changed configuration that incorporates just qualifying meetings for the best two series.
The ARCA Menards Series will start off the end of the week with a training meeting on Friday, April 22, which won't be accessible on TV. The Xfinity Series will follow, yet the drivers won't partake in any training. All things being equal, they will qualify at 5:30 p.M. ET (FS1). Every one of the drivers will finish one lap before the 10 quickest continue on toward the last round to fight for the spot on the post.
The Cup Series drivers will follow a similar arrangement. They will partake in qualifying at 11 a.M. ET (FS1) on Saturday, April 23. Each of the drivers will finish one lap with the 10 quickest continuing on toward the last round. These 10 will then take one more lap while battling for the Busch Light Pole Award.
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The First Superspeedway Race Used a Different Format
GettyRyan Blaney's No. 12 sits in the carport during training.
The race end of the week at Talladega Superspeedway will follow the recently disclosed practice and qualifying organization, and it will check a massive change from the main few days of the time.
The Daytona 500 followed an unexpected configuration in comparison to the remainder of the superspeedway races. The drivers arranged for the primary focuses paying occasion of the time by participating in a solitary 50-minute practice meeting. They acquired insight at the superspeedway while getting ready for both qualifying and the Bluegreen Vacation Duel races.
The justification behind the change is that NASCAR recorded the Daytona 500 as one of its "extended ends of the week" that highlight a different organization. Different occasions that fall under this class are the primary outing to the reconfigured Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol soil, World Wide Technology Raceway, Nashville Superspeedway, and title end of the week at Phoenix Raceway.
The two races at Talladega Superspeedway and the August race end of the week at Daytona International Speedway don't fall under this extended end of the week classification. They will all have qualifying meetings with practically no earlier practice.
Not many Active Drivers Have Pole Wins at Talladega
GettyChase Elliott has two post succeeds at Talladega Superspeedway.
The outing to Talladega Superspeedway will have an intrinsic degree of interest thinking about that there are just six dynamic drivers with post wins in view of qualifying times. There is definitely not a solitary driver that has overwhelmed qualifying since Bill Elliott posted eight shaft wins during his vocation. However Jeff Gordon came close with five during his Hall of Fame profession.
Kevin Harvick (2005, 2018) and Chase Elliott (2016, 2019) lead the dynamic drivers with two beginnings on the shaft each. Austin Dillon (2019), Kurt Busch (2018), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2017), and Martin Truex Jr. (2016) have all won the Pole Award one time each.
Denny Hamlin has three beginnings from the post at Talladega Superspeedway (2020, the two 2021 races) while Truex has one more from the 2020 season. Be that as it may, they gained these through NASCAR's beginning setup equation because of COVID-19 rules.
These drivers will enter the end of the week with great opportunities to win the Busch Light Pole for the Geico 500. Another potential champion choice is Kyle Larson, who won the Daytona 500 post to begin the 2022 season. Another is Alex Bowman, who began the 2018 and 2021 Daytona 500s on the shaft.