{"id":36624,"date":"2025-09-20T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamlin-dominates-pole-position-at-gateway-and-leads-nascar-playoffs-4\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:10:41","slug":"hamlin-dominates-pole-position-at-gateway-and-leads-nascar-playoffs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/hamlin-dominates-pole-position-at-gateway-and-leads-nascar-playoffs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlin Dominates: Pole Position at Gateway and Leads NASCAR Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Denny Hamlin Dominates Qualifying at World Wide Technology Raceway<\/h2>\n\nMADISON, Ill. &#8211; Denny Hamlin continues his perfect streak in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, securing the pole position this Saturday at the World Wide Technology Raceway.\n\nThis is the 46th pole position of his career and the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who also led the qualifying in the playoffs&#8217; inaugural race last week at Darlington Raceway.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe made some excellent adjustments from where we were in practice,\u201d Hamlin commented, who recorded a lap at 139.190 mph in his No. 11 Toyota. \u201cThat\u2019s what they did so well last week for qualifying. Now we have a great track position and we just have to maintain it, and we\u2019ll be in good shape.\u201d<\/p><cite>Denny Hamlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nKyle Larson secured the second spot on the grid, alongside Hamlin, achieving his first top-ten result in qualifying at the 1.25-mile oval east of St. Louis.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chase Briscoe qualified third.<\/li>\n<li>Ross Chastain.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Blaney.<\/li>\n<li>William Byron.<\/li>\n<li>Tyler Reddick.<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Bell.<\/li>\n<li>Austin Cindric.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThese playoff drivers occupied the top nine spots for Sunday&#8217;s 300-mile race at Gateway.\n\nThis result contrasts with the start of the playoffs in Darlington, where only four championship-eligible drivers finished in the top ten in the Southern 500, a historic low for an initial playoff race.\n\nAmong the disappointments, Larson, whose 19th place at Darlington extended his drought to five races without a top-five finish.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI think our team needs it more than anything,\u201d said the 2021 Cup champion. \u201cWe haven\u2019t been able to celebrate much, so we\u2019ll definitely celebrate a front-row spot at Gateway. It\u2019s been a tough and inconsistent couple of months, so even qualifying well feels really good.\u201d<\/p><cite>Kyle Larson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAlex Bowman, who hasn&#8217;t finished above 13th place 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 the last position of the 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 continues his perfect streak in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, securing the pole position this Saturday at the World Wide Technology Raceway. This is the 46th pole position of his career and the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[180,182,104,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-36624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nascar","7":"tag-denny-hamlin","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-playoffs","10":"tag-qualifying"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624","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=36624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}