{"id":469784,"date":"2026-02-12T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469784\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:13:20","slug":"official-starting-lineup-for-the-daytona-duel-qualifying-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469784\/","title":{"rendered":"Official starting lineup for the Daytona Duel qualifying races"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday evening, Kyle Busch<\/a> rocketed to the top of the speed charts in the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing<\/a> Chevrolet, securing pole position for this weekend’s Daytona 500.<\/a> He will share the front row with the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing<\/a> Toyota of Chase Briscoe<\/a>, which means these two drivers will be the pole-sitters for their respective Duel races.<\/p>\n

In Duel #1, it will be Busch and Ryan Preece<\/a> on the front row, while Duel #2 will see JGR teammates Briscoe and Denny Hamlin<\/a> on the front row.<\/p>\n

The field of 45 will be equally split between the two races, with up to ten points available as the top-ten finishers from each Duel race score what is equivalent to a stage in a normal NASCAR race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the battle to make the Daytona 500 field, Corey Heim and Justin Allgaier<\/a> locked in two of the four open spots via their qualifying speed. However, two more spots remain on the grid, and the top-finishing open driver (who is not yet locked-in) from each Duel race will secure themselves one of those coveted positions.<\/p>\n

In Duel #1, open driver\u00a0Corey LaJoie<\/a> will face Casey Mears<\/a> and Chandler Smith<\/a> in that tense battle. In Duel #2, the matchup is Anthony Alfredo, BJ McLeod<\/a>, and JJ Yeley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below, you can find the complete starting lineup for both Duel races:<\/p>\n

Duel #1 and Duel #2 Starting Lineups<\/p>\n

*Denotes open driver not yet locked in<\/p>\n

Read Also:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

We want your opinion!<\/p>\n

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n

Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n

– The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday evening, Kyle Busch rocketed to the top of the speed charts in the No. 8 Richard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,19546,2884,634,3628,191346,82],"class_list":["post-469784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daytona-500","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-official-starting-lineup-for-the-daytona-duel-qualifying-races","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469784","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=469784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}