TALLADEGA, Ala. — Joe Gibbs Racing\u2019s Chase Briscoe will start from the same position he finished last year\u2019s Talladega Superspeedway Fall classic — in front.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old driver of the No. 19 JGR Toyota earned the pole position for Sunday\u2019s YellaWood 500 (2 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) with a fast lap of 186.065 mph around the famed 2.66-mile high banks during Saturday time trials. The mark is the fastest NASCAR Cup Series pole speed at the track — by a significant 3-mph — since 2021.<\/p>\n
It is the first pole of 2026 for Briscoe and comes at a crucial point in the season for the Indiana native who sits third in the championship standings, only 24 points behind leader Kyle Larson with three races remaining to decide the season trophy.<\/p>\n
Briscoe was next to last to take the track among the 10 second-round qualifiers — and he ultimately bested Richard Childress Racing\u2019s Austin Hill\u2019s No. 33 Chevrolet by a slight .032-second.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously have a great starting spot tomorrow for our Toyota, but who knows what to expect with the handling and obviously that first run is all about fuel saving, so we\u2019ll probably have our blinker on pretty early to not have the lead, but we\u2019ll see how it plays out,\u201d said Briscoe, who has three victories this season including two of the last three races coming to Talladega (at Las Vegas and Charlotte).\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Briscoe\u2019s fourth straight top-four starting position and claiming pole position this weekend is particularly important for morale on his team.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely from a pride standpoint there\u2019s a lot that goes into just all the little tiny details that add up,\u201d said Briscoe, who earned seven poles last year and now has 10 in his career. \u201cStack enough of those together and just the pride that comes from that from the guys goes a long way, the confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trackhouse Racing teammates Connor Zilisch and Shane Van Gisbergen will share the second row — third and fourth fastest in time trials. Championship-eligible drivers, Roush Fenway Keselowski\u2019s Chris Buescher and JGR\u2019s Christopher Bell will start fifth and sixth.<\/p>\n
Hendrick\u2019s Alex Bowman, and Chase drivers, JGR teammates Ty Gibbs and Denny Hamlin and Larson rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n
There have been 12 different race winners in the last 12 Talladega races. Hamlin is the last polesitter to win the race — doing so in October 2020. Since 2008, the pole winner has gone on to win in the NASCAR Cup Series at the track only twice.<\/p>\n
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This story was originally published October 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLADEGA, Ala. — Joe Gibbs Racing\u2019s Chase Briscoe will start from the same position he finished last year\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-476160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}