NASCAR lineup at Richmond: Starting order, pole for Toyota Owners 400 after qualifying

Tom Gatto

NASCAR lineup at Richmond: Starting order, pole for Toyota Owners 400 after qualifying image

NASCAR is short-track racing this weekend with a trip to historic Richmond Raceway. The field for the Toyota Owners 400 was set Saturday with two rounds of single-lap qualifying runs.

A familiar driver finished on top of the speed chart, and the pole win gives him a big boost as he looks for his first win at the 0.75-mile track.

Sunday's race will be the seventh race of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season. Will we see a seventh different winner? The lineup might offer some clues.   

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Who won the pole for the NASCAR race at Richmond?

Ryan Blaney nabbed his second pole in as many races and third pole of the season with a 119.782 mph lap in the 10-car final round of qualifying. William Byron, who took the other spot in the front row, qualified at 119.585 mph.

Blaney is very pleased to be able to start up front.

"Track position means a lot here," he said, per NASCAR.com. "Especially how my past history is here, I need all the track position I can get." His best finish at Richmond is 10th in the 2021 fall race.

Starting lineup for Richmond race

The three NASCAR manufacturers — Ford (Ryan Blaney), Chevrolet (William Byron) and Toyota (Kyle Busch) — are all represented in the lineup's top three spots.

In all, 37 drivers will line up for the start of the Toyota Dealers 400 at Richmond Raceway.

Starting pos. Driver Car No. Team
1 Ryan Blaney 12 Team Penske
2 William Byron 24 Hendrick Motorsports
3 Kyle Busch 18 Joe Gibbs Racing
4 Chase Briscoe 14 Stewart-Haas Racing
5 Erik Jones 43 Petty GMS Motorsports
6 Martin Truex Jr. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing
7 Kevin Harvick 4 Stewart-Haas Racing
8 Ross Chastain 1 TrackHouse Racing
9 Christopher Bell 20 Joe Gibbs Racing
10 Aric Almirola 10 Stewart-Haas Racing
11 Joey Logano 22 Team Penske
12 Cole Custer 41 Stewart-Haas Racing
13 Denny Hamlin 11 Joe Gibbs Racing
14 Daniel Suarez 99 TrackHouse Racing
15 Chase Elliott 9 Hendrick Motorsports
16 Tyler Reddick 8 Richard Childress Racing
17 Harrison Burton 21 Wood Brothers Racing
18 Chris Buescher 17 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing
19 Brad Keselowski 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing
20 Austin Cindric 2 Team Penske
21 Kyle Larson 5 Hendrick Motorsports
22 Todd Gilliland 38 Front Row Motorsports
23 Landon Cassill 77 Spire Motorsports
24 Michael McDowell 34 Front Row Motorsports
25 Austin Dillon 3 Richard Childress Racing
26 AJ Allmendinger 16 Kaulig Racing
27 Kurt Busch 45 23XI Racing
28 Alex Bowman 48 Hendrick Motorsports
29 Bubba Wallace 23 23XI Racing
30 Ty Dillon 42 Petty GMS Motorsports
31 Corey LaJoie 7 Spire Motorsports
32 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing
33 Cody Ware 51 Rick Ware Racing
34 BJ McLeod 78 Live Fast Motorsports
35 JJ Yeley 15 Rick Ware Racing
36 Justin Haley 31 Kaulig Racing
37 Greg Biffle 44 NY Racing Team

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.