{"id":74270,"date":"2025-08-16T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74270\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:31:15","slug":"ryan-preece-earns-2nd-career-pole-position-in-hunt-for-nascar-playoff-spot-at-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74270\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Preece earns 2nd career pole position in hunt for NASCAR playoff spot at Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) \u2014 Ryan Preece will start from the pole position Saturday night at Richmond Raceway while trying to lock <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nascar-richmond-playoffs-hamlin-dillon-b843c0799a11bbe891180ae8be0325eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in a spot for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in a spot for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Preece earned his second career pole in 212 Cup starts with a lap at 121.381 mph around the 0.75-mile oval in his No. 60 Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a great car,\u201d said Preece, whose previous pole came at Martinsville Speedway in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>With two races remaining in the regular season, Preece still can make the playoffs through the points standings, but a win would secure an automatic berth.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Reddick, who can lock into the 16-driver playoff field on points with a strong result Saturday, qualified second. AJ Allmendinger will start third despite his No. 16 Chevrolet failing prerace inspection twice, which resulted in a loss of pit stall selection and the ejection of car chief Jaron Antley.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott rounded out the top five in qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Sweeping the top three starting spots, Preece, Reddick and Allmendinger were joined by six other winless drivers qualifying in the top 15: Brad Keselowski (sixth), Alex Bowman (ninth), Michael McDowell (10th), Austin Dillon (11th), Chris Buescher (12th) and Carson Hocevar (15th). It\u2019ll be a tougher slog to get to the front for Ty Gibbs (22nd) and Kyle Busch (28th).<\/p>\n<p>Three-time Cup champion Joey Logano, a two-time winner at Richmond, will start last in the 38-car field after being unable to turn a lap in qualifying. Logano hit the Turn 4 wall in practice because of a right-front tire problem on his No. 22 Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Starting position is critical at Richmond, which tends to have long green-flag stretches when it\u2019s easy to fall a lap down. Last August\u2019s race had only three caution flags, which is tied for the fewest on a short track since the 2022 debut of the Next Gen car.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND, Va. (AP) \u2014 Ryan Preece will start from the pole position Saturday night at Richmond Raceway while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,4387,634,45826,37349,42646,9537,82,9272],"class_list":["post-74270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chase-elliott","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup-series-playoffs","tag-pole-position","tag-richmond-raceway","tag-ryan-preece","tag-sports","tag-tyler-reddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74270","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=74270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}