NASCAR will wrap up its winter West Coast tour Sunday with the Ruoff Mortgage 500 Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway (3:47 p.m. ET green flag; Fox, TSN4, MRN).
Qualifying for the event took place Saturday. Ten drivers competed for the pole position, with each making a single-lap run around Phoenix's 1-mile oval after advancing out of the first round.
The Cup Series will return to Phoenix in November for the season-ending playoff championship race.
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Who won the pole for the NASCAR race at Phoenix?
The pole went to Team Penske's Ryan Blaney, who posted a 132.709 mph lap in the final round of qualifying. He was the last of the 10 drivers to make a qualifying run in the round.
A fan-cactus🌵 lap set by the No. 12.@Blaney wins the #BuschLightPole at @phoenixraceway! pic.twitter.com/OzxbxsF7q9
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) March 12, 2022
"Pretty great effort by the whole 12 group," Blaney said afterward. "Really good rebound from kind of the way our race ended last week, so hopefully, we've got a pretty good car for tomorrow. We'll see. Try to get a win."
Blaney finished 36th last weekend at Las Vegas after crashing in Stage 2.
Starting lineup for Phoenix race
Ryan Blaney and Denny Hamlin will start on the front row Sunday. The pole is Blaney's first of the season (four races).
Kyle Larson qualified seventh but will start at the rear of the field because of an unapproved change made by the No. 5 team after qualifying.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will start in the back as well. His JTG Daugherty Racing team changed the engine in the No. 47 car following practice.
Only the 36 Cup Series charter teams were entered for the race.
| Starting pos. | Driver | Car No. | Team |
| 1 | Ryan Blaney | 12 | Team Penske |
| 2 | Denny Hamlin | 11 | Joe Gibbs Racing |
| 3 | William Byron | 24 | Hendrick Motorsports |
| 4 | Christopher Bell | 20 | Joe Gibbs Racing |
| 5 | Aric Almirola | 10 | Stewart-Haas Racing |
| 6 | Chase Briscoe | 14 | Stewart-Haas Racing |
| 7 | Kyle Larson | 5 | Hendrick Motorsports |
| 8 | Austin Cindric | 2 | Team Penske |
| 9 | Alex Bowman | 48 | Hendrick Motorsports |
| 10 | Joey Logano | 22 | Team Penske |
| 11 | Kyle Busch | 18 | Joe Gibbs Racing |
| 12 | Tyler Reddick | 8 | Richard Childress Racing |
| 13 | Austin Dillon | 3 | Richard Childress Racing |
| 14 | Erik Jones | 43 | Petty GMS Motorsports |
| 15 | Kurt Busch | 45 | 23XI Racing |
| 16 | Kevin Harvick | 4 | Stewart-Haas Racing |
| 17 | Ross Chastain | 1 | Trackhouse Racing |
| 18 | Brad Keselowski | 6 | Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing |
| 19 | Chase Elliott | 9 | Hendrick Motorsports |
| 20 | Martin Truex Jr. | 19 | Joe Gibbs Racing |
| 21 | Ty Dillon | 42 | Petty GMS Motorsports |
| 22 | Michael McDowell | 34 | Front Row Motorsports |
| 23 | Daniel Suarez | 99 | TrackHouse Racing |
| 24 | Harrison Burton | 21 | Wood Brothers Racing |
| 25 | Cole Custer | 41 | Stewart-Haas Racing |
| 26 | Chris Buescher | 17 | Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing |
| 27 | Bubba Wallace | 23 | 23XI Racing |
| 28 | Justin Haley | 31 | Kaulig Racing |
| 29 | AJ Allmendinger | 16 | Kaulig Racing |
| 30 | Corey LaJoie | 7 | Spire Motorsports |
| 31 | Landon Cassill | 77 | Spire Motorsports |
| 32 | Cody Ware | 51 | Rick Ware Racing |
| 33 | Todd Gilliland | 38 | Front Row Motorsports |
| 34 | BJ McLeod | 78 | Live Fast Motorsports |
| 35 | Garrett Smithley | 15 | Rick Ware Racing |
| 36 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 47 | JTG Daugherty Racing |
