{"id":157871,"date":"2025-09-20T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157871\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:52:08","slug":"new-hampshire-starting-lineup-joey-logano-takes-pole-for-nascar-cup-playoff-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157871\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire starting lineup: Joey Logano takes pole for NASCAR Cup playoff race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUDON, N.H. \u2014 Joey Logano led a sweep of the front row for Sunday\u2019s Cup playoff race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Logano was one of three drivers who took part in a Goodyear tire test in July \u2014 Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain were the others. <\/p>\n<p>Logano won his second pole of the season and 33rd of his career with a lap of 130.622 mph. He will be joined on the front row by Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney, who qualified at 129.865 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Berry, whose Wood Brothers Racing team is aligned with Team Penske, qualified third with a lap of 129.754 mph. Tyler Reddick (129.745 mph) qualified fourth and William Byron (129.670) will start fifth.<\/p>\n<p>In the Next Gen era (since 2022), the New Hampshire winner has started no worse than fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Other playoff drivers in the top 10 were Ross Chastain, who will start eighth, and Denny Hamlin, who will start ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Bubba Wallace, who holds the final transfer spot entering the second round of the playoffs, will start 14th. <\/p>\n<p>Four playoff drivers will start outside the top 15: Kyle Larson qualified 16th, Chase Briscoe qualified 18th, defending winner Christopher Bell qualified 19th, Austin Cindric will start 22nd and Chase Elliott will start 27th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUDON, N.H. \u2014 Joey Logano led a sweep of the front row for Sunday\u2019s Cup playoff race at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-157871","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\/157871","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=157871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}