Regular-season champion Tyler Reddick will be on the pole Sunday for the second race of the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs.
The Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway will start at 2:30 p.m EDT and air on NBC and live-stream on fubo TV (FREE trial).
It looks like a perfect day for racing, with cloudy to partly cloudy skies and highs in the low 80s.
Reddick turned a 167.452 mph lap in a Toyota Camry for 23XI Racing to best Hendricks Motorsports driver Kyle Larson by 0.077 seconds and take the top starting spot. He is one of seven drivers vying for the remaining three spots in the Cup Series championship finale at Phoenix.
It is Reddick’s third pole of 2024 in the No. 45 Camry.
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Joey Logano of Team Penske became the first driver locked into the championship when he won at Las Vegas last week.
Christopher Bell of Joe Gibbs Racing, who won the race at Homestead last year, qualified third in the No. 20 Camry. Bell’s Gibbs teammate Denny Hamlin was next in the No. 11 Camry.
Qualifying positions for the remaining playoff drivers were Chase Elliott in seventh, reigning Cup champion Ryan Blaney in 20th and William Byron in 25th.
Bell leads the driver standings over Kyle Larson by seven points and William Byron by 15. Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, defending champion Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott are below the cutline as the Round of Eight continues.
You can search the driver and playoff standings at this link.
After this weekend, the final race in the Round of Eight will take place on Nov. 3 at Martinsville Speedway before everything on Nov. 8 at Phoenix Raceway.
