{"id":39437,"date":"2025-09-24T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hamlin-sets-the-pace-pole-position-at-gateway-and-playoff-dominance-in-nascar\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:17:59","slug":"hamlin-sets-the-pace-pole-position-at-gateway-and-playoff-dominance-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/hamlin-sets-the-pace-pole-position-at-gateway-and-playoff-dominance-in-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlin Sets the Pace: Pole Position at Gateway and Playoff Dominance in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Denny Hamlin Dominates Qualifying at Gateway and Secures Pole Position<\/h2>\n\nMADISON, Ill. &#8211; Denny Hamlin demonstrated his supremacy in qualifying during the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, securing the pole position this 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 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>\u201cWe made big adjustments from where we were in practice,\u201d Hamlin commented, who completed a lap at 139.190 mph with his No. 11 Toyota. \u201cThat\u2019s what they did so well last week for qualifying. Now we have an excellent 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-ten result at the 1.25-mile track east of St. Louis.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chase Briscoe qualified third.<\/li><li>Ross Chastain.<\/li><li>Ryan Blaney.<\/li><li>William Byron.<\/li><li>Tyler Reddick.<\/li><li>Christopher Bell.<\/li><li>Austin Cindric<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nThese playoff drivers occupied the top nine starting positions for Sunday&#8217;s 300-mile race at the circuit known as Gateway.\n\n\n<p>This marks a notable difference from 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 inaugural playoff race.<\/p>\n\n\nAmong the disappointments, Larson, whose 19th-place finish at Darlington extended his streak to 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\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 in 12th place) in the last position of the standings among the 16 playoff drivers.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin Dominates Qualifying at Gateway and Secures Pole Position MADISON, Ill. &#8211; Denny Hamlin demonstrated his supremacy in qualifying during the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, securing the pole position this Saturday at the World Wide Technology Raceway. This is the 46th pole of his career and the third of the season for the Joe [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nascar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39437","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=39437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}