{"id":33860,"date":"2025-09-13T05:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamlin-dominates-nascar-playoffs-pole-at-gateway-and-unstoppable-streak\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:22:06","slug":"hamlin-dominates-nascar-playoffs-pole-at-gateway-and-unstoppable-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/hamlin-dominates-nascar-playoffs-pole-at-gateway-and-unstoppable-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlin Dominates NASCAR Playoffs: Pole at Gateway and Unstoppable Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Denny Hamlin Dominates Qualifying at World Wide Technology Raceway<\/h2>\n\nMADISON, Ill. &#8211; Denny Hamlin demonstrated his supremacy in the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying by securing the pole position at the World Wide Technology Raceway.\n\nThis marks the 46th pole position of his career and the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who also led the standings in last week&#8217;s playoff race at Darlington Raceway.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We made big adjustments since practice,&#8221; Hamlin commented, who achieved a lap at 139.190 mph in his No. 11 Toyota. &#8220;That&#8217;s what they did so well last week for qualifying. Now we have an excellent track position and we just have to keep it, and we&#8217;ll be in good shape.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Denny Hamlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nKyle Larson secured the second spot on the grid, alongside Hamlin, marking his first top-ten result in qualifying at the 1.25-mile oval east of St. Louis.\n\nChase Briscoe finished third, followed by Ross Chastain, Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Tyler Reddick, Christopher Bell, and Austin Cindric. These playoff drivers occupied the top nine positions for Sunday&#8217;s 300-mile race at Gateway.\n\nThis performance contrasts with the start of the playoffs in Darlington, where only four championship-eligible drivers finished in the top 10 in the Southern 500, a historic low for a playoff-opening race.\n\nAmong the disappointments was Larson, whose 19th-place finish at Darlington continued a streak of five races without a top five.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I think our team needs it more than anything,&#8221; said the 2021 Cup champion. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t been able to celebrate much, so we&#8217;ll definitely celebrate a front-row start at Gateway. It&#8217;s been a tough and inconsistent couple of months, so even qualifying well feels really good.&#8221; <\/p><cite>Kyle Larson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlex Bowman, who hasn&#8217;t finished above 13th at Gateway, qualified in 25th place, being the only playoff driver to start outside the top 20. Bowman is tied with Josh Berry (who qualified 12th) in last place in the points standings among the 16 playoff drivers.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin Dominates Qualifying at World Wide Technology Raceway MADISON, Ill. &#8211; Denny Hamlin demonstrated his supremacy in the NASCAR Cup Series qualifying by securing the pole position at the World Wide Technology Raceway. This marks the 46th pole position of his career and the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[180,182,104,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-33860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-denny-hamlin","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-playoffs","11":"tag-qualifying"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860","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=33860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}