{"id":25875,"date":"2025-08-18T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/preece-on-the-pole-at-richmond-eyes-playoffs-in-nascar-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:18:18","slug":"preece-on-the-pole-at-richmond-eyes-playoffs-in-nascar-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/preece-on-the-pole-at-richmond-eyes-playoffs-in-nascar-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Preece on the Pole at Richmond: Eyes Playoffs in NASCAR Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ryan Preece Leads the Field at Richmond, Seeking a Playoff Berth<\/h2>\n\nDriver <b>Ryan Preece<\/b> secured the <i>pole position<\/i> for Saturday&#8217;s night race at Richmond Raceway, in an attempt to secure his place in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.\n\nPreece earned his second <i>pole position<\/i> in 212 Cup races, with a lap at 121.381 mph on the 0.75-mile oval aboard his No. 60 Ford.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>What a great car!<\/p><cite>Ryan Preece<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe previous <i>pole position<\/i> for Preece was at Martinsville Speedway in April 2023.\n\nWith two races remaining in the regular season, Preece can still qualify for the playoffs through the points standings, but a win would guarantee him an automatic spot.\n\n<b>Tyler Reddick<\/b>, who could secure his place in the playoffs with a good result on Saturday, qualified in second place.\n\n<b>AJ Allmendinger<\/b> will start third despite his No. 16 Chevrolet failing pre-race inspection twice, resulting in the loss of his pit stall selection and the ejection of crew chief Jaron Antley.\n\n<b>Denny Hamlin<\/b> and <b>Chase Elliott<\/b> rounded out the top five in the standings.\n\nIn addition to Preece, Reddick, and Allmendinger, six other winless drivers qualified in the top 15:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><b>Brad Keselowski<\/b> (sixth)<\/li><li><b>Alex Bowman<\/b> (ninth)<\/li><li><b>Michael McDowell<\/b> (tenth)<\/li><li><b>Austin Dillon<\/b> (eleventh)<\/li><li><b>Chris Buescher<\/b> (twelfth)<\/li><li><b>Carson Hocevar<\/b> (fifteenth)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIt will be more difficult for <b>Ty Gibbs<\/b> (22nd) and <b>Kyle Busch<\/b> (28th) to advance.\n\n<b>Joey Logano<\/b>, three-time Cup champion and two-time Richmond winner, will start last on the 38-car grid after failing to complete a qualifying lap. Logano hit the wall in Turn 4 during practice due to a problem with the front right tire of his No. 22 Ford.\n\nThe starting position is crucial in Richmond, which tends to have long green flag runs, where it&#8217;s easy to get a lap down. Last August&#8217;s race had only three caution flags, matching the fewest on a short track since the Next Gen car debuted in 2022.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Preece Leads the Field at Richmond, Seeking a Playoff Berth Driver Ryan Preece secured the pole position for Saturday&#8217;s night race at Richmond Raceway, in an attempt to secure his place in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Preece earned his second pole position in 212 Cup races, with a lap at 121.381 mph on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[182,104,7436,7342],"class_list":{"0":"post-25875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-playoffs","10":"tag-richmond","11":"tag-ryan-preece"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}