{"id":37649,"date":"2025-09-22T04:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamlin-dominates-pole-position-at-gateway-and-leads-nascar-playoffs-5\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:42:35","slug":"hamlin-dominates-pole-position-at-gateway-and-leads-nascar-playoffs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/hamlin-dominates-pole-position-at-gateway-and-leads-nascar-playoffs-5\/","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\nThe driver Denny Hamlin maintained his perfect streak in qualifying during the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, securing the pole position on Saturday at the World Wide Technology Raceway.\n\nThis is the 46th pole of his career and the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs Racing star, who also qualified first in last week&#8217;s playoff opener at Darlington Raceway.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe made some big adjustments from where we were in practice,\u201d Hamlin said, who completed 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 qualified in second place alongside Hamlin, achieving his first top-10 finish on 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\n\n<p>These playoff drivers took the top nine starting positions for Sunday&#8217;s 300-mile race at the track known as Gateway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This result marks a notable difference from the start of the playoffs in Darlington, where only four championship-eligible drivers finished in the top 10 in the Southern 500.<\/p>\n\n\nAmong the disappointments was Larson, whose 19th-place finish at Darlington continued a streak of five races without a top-five result.\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&#8217;t been able to celebrate much, so we&#8217;ll definitely celebrate a front-row starting spot at Gateway. It&#8217;s 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 has finished no higher than 13th at Gateway, qualified 25th as the only playoff driver to start outside the top 20. Bowman is tied with Josh Berry (who qualified 12th) for the last position in the points standings among the 16 playoff drivers.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin Dominates Qualifying at World Wide Technology Raceway The driver Denny Hamlin maintained his perfect streak in qualifying during the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, securing the pole position on Saturday at the World Wide Technology Raceway. This is the 46th pole 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":[180,8391,182,452],"class_list":{"0":"post-37649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nascar","7":"tag-denny-hamlin","8":"tag-gateway","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-qualifying"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37649","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=37649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}