Daytona Motor Mouths: Kurt Busch to NASCAR Corridor of Fame in 2026?
Will the NASCAR Cup Sequence return to Rockingham within the close to future? What about Kurt Busch and his 2026 Corridor of Fame probabilities?
Until you are a part of some bizarre wagering pool for qualifying, please pay little to no consideration to what you see beneath.
Learn it, in fact, however lordy, do not you dare use it as any form of barometer for what is going to occur Sunday within the Jack Hyperlink’s 500 at huge and dangerous Talladega Superspeedway. And I do know what you are pondering.
“Properly, when you’re so good, why do not you throw a few of your fancy statistics at us.”
Do not thoughts if I do. ‘Scuse me whereas I whip these out …
After eliminating pole qualifying in 2020 and ’21, NASCAR resumed the standard pace runs in 2022, which can be when the Subsequent Gen automobile cranked to life. So we have now three years and 6 Talladega races as a pattern measurement, and Junior, what a pattern we have now.
Common beginning place for the six Talladega winners since 2022: 18.6. One of the best beginning spot was tenth and the worst was thirty second (Ricky Stenhouse final October).
Need extra? Certain you do.
Common ending place for the six pole winners since 2022: 23.5. No pole winner has completed higher than seventeenth, and the final two completed thirty seventh and thirty first. Sure, each have been Michael McDowell.
Despite all this, they went forward with qualifying Saturday morning.
Ten quickest speeds throughout Talladega qualifying
These 10 drivers superior from first-round qualifying, which included all automobiles, to a second-round of qualifying to find out the primary 5 rows.
Zane Smith:Â 182.174
Kyle Busch: 181.718
Joey Logano: 181.708
Ryan Preece: 181.708
Austin Dillon: 181.584
Chris Buescher: 181.498
Austin Cindric: 181.432
Josh Berry: 191.381
Ryan Blaney: 181.250
Ty Gibbs: 180.846
NASCAR lineup for Talladega
Full lineup for Sunday’s race, with lap occasions from Saturday’s qualifying.
Zane Smith, No. 38 52.565Kyle Busch, No. 8, 52.697Joey Logano, No. 22, 52.7Ryan Preece, No. 60, 52.7Austin Dillon, No. 3, 52.736Chris Buescher, No. 17, 52.761Austin Cindric, No. 2, 52.78Josh Berry, No. 21, 52.795Ryan Blaney, No. 12, 52.833Ty Gibbs, No. 54, 52.951Christopher Bell, No. 20, 52.927Cole Custer, No. 41, 52.941Denny Hamlin, No. 11, 52.983Michael McDowell, No. 71, 52.991Todd Gilliland, No. 34, 52.995William Byron, No. 24, 53.028Chase Briscoe, No. 19, 53.061Alex Bowman, No. 48, 53.083AJ Allmendinger, No. 16, 53.084Bubba Wallace, No. 23, 53.122Ty Dillon, No. 10, 53.123Brad Keselowski, No. 6, 53.139Riley Herbst, No. 35, 53.157Daniel Suarez, No. 99, 53.191Kyle Larson, No. 5, 53.211Tyler Reddick, No. 45, 53.222Noah Gragson, No. 4, 53.264Carson Hocevar, No. 77, 53.298John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42, 53.337Chase Elliott, No. 9, 53.345Anthony Alfredo, No. 62, 53.381Ross Chastain, no. 1, 53.399Cody Ware, No. 51, 53.417Erik Jones, No. 43, 53.503Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47, 53.534Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88, 53.538Justin Haley, No. 7, 53.563BJ McLeod, No. 78, 54.103JJ Yeley, No. 44, 55.671NASCAR at Talladega schedule, TV channel
SATURDAY
12:30 p.m.:Â ARCA Sequence, Basic Tire 200 (FS1).
4 p.m.:Â Xfinity Sequence, Ag-Professional 300 (CW).
SUNDAY
3 p.m.:Â Cup Sequence, Jack Hyperlink’s 500 (Fox).
