NASCAR lineup at Charlotte: Starting order, pole for Roval 400 playoff race

Tom Gatto

NASCAR lineup at Charlotte: Starting order, pole for Roval 400 playoff race image

Four more drivers will leave the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs Sunday. They'll be taking a circuitous route to the exit.

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The Round of 12 will end with the Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The road-oval hybrid will test both car and driver with seven spots in the Round of 8 still open.

Only Chase Elliott, road course ace, is already locked in for the next three playoff races. He won last weekend at Talladega to secure an automatic berth. 

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The weekend competition for the spots below him began in earnest with qualifying Saturday. Here's what you need to know about the results.

Bank of America Roval 400 qualifying results

Who won the pole for the NASCAR race at Charlotte?

Joey Logano will start on the pole Sunday. The Team Penske driver edged out Hendrick Motorsports' William Byron by 0.124 mph in the final round of qualifying for his 25th career pole.

"Starting up front's nice. Hopefully we can do what we need to do this weekend," Logano told NBC's Dave Burns after qualifying. "Our job's to get into the next round here and we'll figure out what we do from here. But this is a great starting spot, for sure. We've got a good pit stall and (we'll) try to keep that track position. It's pretty sketchy when you lose your track position here, so we'll try to keep it."

Logano enters the race fifth in the playoff standings, 18 points above the cut line. Byron enters in seventh, 14 points to the good, thanks to a reprieve by NASCAR. It gave back the 25 points it docked him for his intentional spin of Denny Hamlin under caution at Texas two races ago. Byron appealed the penalty and won. 

Final group results

Finish Driver Lap speed (mph)
1 Joey Logano 103.424
2 William Byron 103.300
3 Daniel Suarez 103.103
4 Tyler Reddick 103.088
5 Austin Cindric 102.743
6 Ryan Blaney 102.685
7 AJ Allmendinger 102.295
8 Christopher Bell 102.089
9 Chase Elliott 101.746
10 Ross Chastain 78.695

Lineup, starting order for Charlotte playoff race

All three Team Penske drivers qualified in the top six, led by pole-sitter Joey Logano. Teammates Austin Cindric and Ryan Blaney will roll off fifth and sixth, respectively.

Eight of the top 10 spots in the field went to playoff drivers. Three other playoff drivers/teams are starting at a disadvantage after poor qualifying results: Chase Briscoe (17th), Kyle Larson (18th) and Denny Hamlin (24th). Briscoe is 12 points out of the top eight.  

Pos. Driver Car No. Team
1 Joey Logano (P) 22 Team Penske
2 William Byron (P) 24 Hendrick Motorsports
3 Daniel Suarez (P) 99 Trackhouse Racing
4 Tyler Reddick 8 Richard Childress Racing
5 Austin Cindric (P) 2 Team Penske
6 Ryan Blaney (P) 12 Team Penske
7 AJ Allmendinger 16 Kaulig Racing
8 Christopher Bell (P) 20 Joe Gibbs Racing
9 Chase Elliott (P) 9 Hendrick Motorsports
10 Ross Chastain (P) 1 Trackhouse Racing
11 Michael McDowell 34 Front Row Motorsports
12 Cole Custer 41 Stewart-Haas Racing
13 Justin Haley 31 Kaulig Racing
14 Bubba Wallace 45 23XI Racing
15 Austin Dillon 3 Richard Childress Racing
16 Ty Gibbs 23 23XI Racing
17 Chase Briscoe (P) 14 Stewart-Haas Racing
18 Kyle Larson (P) 24 Hendrick Motorsports
19 Martin Truex Jr. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing
20 Kyle Busch 18 Joe Gibbs Racing
21 Chris Buescher 17 RFK Racing
22 Kevin Harvick 4 Stewart-Haas Racing
23 Harrison Burton 21 Wood Brothers Racing
24 Denny Hamlin (P) 11 Joe Gibbs Racing
25 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing
26 Erik Jones 43 Petty GMS Motorsports
27 Joey Hand 15 Rick Ware Racing
28 Ty Dillon 42 Petty GMS Motorsports
29 Noah Gragson (R) 48 Hendrick Motorsports 
30 Corey LaJoie 7 Spire Motorsports
31 Brad Keselowski 6 RFK Racing
32 Todd GIlliland 38 Front Row Motorsports
33 Daniil Kvyat 26 Team Hezeberg
34 Mike Rockenfeller 77 Spire Motorsports
35 JJ Yeley 51 Rick Ware Racing
36 Loris Hezemans 27 Team Hezeberg
37 Aric Almirola 10 Stewart-Haas Racing
38 Josh Williams 78 Live Fast Motorsports
39 Conor Daly 50 TMT Racing

(P) Playoff driver
(R) Replacement for playoff driver Alex Bowman

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.