Chase Elliott Secures Pole at Dover in the Rain
In a day marked by heavy rains at Dover Motor Speedway, Chase Elliott took the pole position for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race.
The driver, along with the rest of the grid, were unable to complete any practice or qualifying laps on Saturday due to the intense rainfall that lashed the concrete one-mile track.
This will be the first July race in Dover since 1969.
Elliott, with two wins and ten top-fives in fourteen races at Dover, will look to extend his record at this track.
Chase Briscoe qualified second, followed by Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, and William Byron.
Shane van Gisbergen, last week’s winner at Sonoma Raceway, Michael McDowell, Joey Logano, Ty Gibbs, and Kyle Busch round out the top 10.
Logano is about to become the youngest driver in NASCAR history to reach 600 races.
Logano will be 35 years, 1 month and 26 days old when he reaches his 600th career race on Sunday at Dover Motor Speedway, surpassing Richard Petty, NASCAR’s seven-time champion and Hall of Famer, by six months.
The mid-season tournament, which awards a prize of one million dollars to the winner, pits Ty Dillon against John Hunter Nemechek and Reddick against Gibbs in the head-to-head challenge at Dover.
The winners will face off next week in Indianapolis. Reddick is the favorite to win, according to the bets.
The four drivers have not yet won this season.
