{"id":580133,"date":"2026-04-03T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:11:14","slug":"jake-garcia-earns-pole-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580133\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Garcia earns pole position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief rain delay, qualifying got underway for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Rockingham on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>38 trucks were competing for 36 spots on the grid, with two missing the snow. One of those was Jonathan Shafer in the No. 69 MBM Motorsports Ford, after a crash in practice meant he could not take part in qualifying. The other DNQ was Justin Carroll in the No. 90 Terry Carroll Motorsports Toyota.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/jake-garcia\/953460\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Garcia<\/a> earned pole position in the No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford. He has five career poles, and earned pole for this same race one year ago, going on to earn a career-best finish of second in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/tanner-gray\/442834\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tanner Gray<\/a> will join him on the front row in the No. 15\u00a0TRICON Toyota. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/kaden-honeycutt\/956711\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaden Honeycutt<\/a>, Cole Butcher, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/layne-riggs\/953470\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Layne Riggs<\/a> fill out the rest of the top five. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ty-majeski\/384949\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Majeski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/corey-heim\/953450\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Heim<\/a>, Parker Eatmon, Landen Lewis, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/gio-ruggiero\/956731\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gio Ruggiero<\/a> completed the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>Brenden Queen was the top Ram driver in 11th, while Cup drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/carson-hocevar\/953387\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Hocevar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ty-dillon\/17046\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Dillon<\/a> will start 16th and 28th, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Lineup<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a brief rain delay, qualifying got underway for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Rockingham on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,18242,222114,165060,167871,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-580133","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-nascar-truck","12":"tag-nascar-truck-rockingham-starting-lineup-jake-garcia-earns-pole-position","13":"tag-rockingham","14":"tag-rockingham-motor-speedway","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580133","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=580133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}