{"id":125000,"date":"2025-09-06T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125000\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:20:07","slug":"nascar-xfinity-qualifying-connor-zilisch-snatches-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125000\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Xfinity Qualifying: Connor Zilisch Snatches Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

It came down to the final driver, but Connor Zilisch<\/a> earned his eighth career pole after nipping fellow chevy driver Nick Sanchez<\/a> by .027 seconds on his run. <\/p>\n

William Sawalich<\/a>, Sam Mayer<\/a> and Taylor Gray<\/a> took home the rest of the top five in that order. Harrison Burton<\/a>, who currently sits on the playoff cutline, will roll off sixth with Aric Almirola<\/a> and Carson Kvapil<\/a> starting behind him. Austin Hill<\/a> and Christian Eckes<\/a> make up the rest of the top 10. <\/p>\n

All 38 cars who took time made the field for this evening\u2019s race, where the playoff field will be set for the Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n

Sheldon Creed<\/a> and Taylor Gray each hold more than 60-point gaps to the cutline entering today, with Creed starting his race from outside the top 10. Jeb Burton<\/a>, who sits 31 points behind Harrison Burton for the final playoff spot, rolls off 20th in tonight\u2019s race. <\/p>\n

The Nu Way 200 Sauced by Blu Hog will air tonight on The CW starting at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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Thomas is in his first year covering NASCAR at Frontstretch. A Bay Area NASCAR fan for over 15+ years, he found his love for the sport through Jeff Gordon.<\/p>\n

Thomas has enjoyed several trips to Sonoma Raceway in his time and currently covers college football in the Bay Area, also writing about the California Golden Bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It came down to the final driver, but Connor Zilisch earned his eighth career pole after nipping fellow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-125000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}