{"id":22097,"date":"2025-07-19T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22097\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:09:10","slug":"chase-elliott-wins-the-pole-at-dover-after-rain-washes-out-nascar-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22097\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott wins the pole at Dover after rain washes out NASCAR qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOVER, Del. \u2014 Chase Elliott took advantage of heavy rain at Dover Motor Speedway to earn the pole for Sunday&#8217;s NASCAR Cup Series race.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott and the rest of the field never got to turn a scheduled practice or qualifying lap on Saturday because of rain that pounded the concrete mile track. Dover is scheduled to hold its first July race since the track&#8217;s first one in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott has two wins and 10 top-five finishes in 14 career races at Dover.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Briscoe starts second, followed by Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick and William Byron. Shane van Gisbergen, last week&#8217;s winner at Sonoma Raceway, Michael McDowell, Joey Logano, Ty Gibbs and Kyle Busch complete the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Logano is set to become the youngest driver in NASCAR history with 600 career starts.<\/p>\n<p>Logano will be 35 years, 1 month, 26 days old when he hits No. 600 on Sunday at Dover Motor Speedway. He will top seven-time NASCAR champion and Hall of Famer Richard Petty by six months.<\/p>\n<p>The midseason tournament that pays $1 million to the winner pits Ty Dillon vs. John Hunter Nemechek and Reddick vs. Gibbs in the head-to-head challenge at Dover.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Chase Elliott's car is rolled out of the garage toward...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752952150_575_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chase Elliott&#8217;s car is rolled out of the garage toward pit row before a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., Sunday, July 13, 2025. Credit: AP\/Scott Strazzante<\/p>\n<p>The winners face off next week at Indianapolis. Reddick is the betting favorite to win it all, according to BetMGM Sportsbook.<\/p>\n<p>All four drivers are winless this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOVER, Del. \u2014 Chase Elliott took advantage of heavy rain at Dover Motor Speedway to earn the pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[19984,425,99,9815],"class_list":["post-22097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-motor-racing","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}