The defending champ is back at it, just casually winning things again.
Kyle Larson earned the pole position for the 2022 Daytona 500 on Wednesday night, completing the best lap of any driver in the 10-car, final round runs.
He’ll start directly next to his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Alex Bowman, who will be starting the Great American Race from the front row for the fifth-straight year – a race record.
The rest of the 40-car starting lineup will be determined by Thursday’s duels.
Aside from the front row, the only other thing that was clinched was Jacques Villeneuve and Noah Gragson clinching spots in Sunday’s race on speed in single car runs.
Two more open teams will qualify for the race on Thursday, by being the highest finishing open team in their respective duel. Of the eight open teams competing, four will qualify for the race in total to set the field.
The starting lineups for Thursday can be seen below, and fans can tune into the duels starting at 6:00 p.m. CT on Fox Sports 1.
Duel 1
1. Kyle Larson
2. William Byron
3. Chase Elliott
4. Ross Chastain
5. Daniel Suarez
6. Daniel Hemric
7. Ryan Blaney
8. Tyler Reddick
9. Brad Keselwoski
10. Chase Briscoe
11. Austin Cindric
12. Erik Jones
13. Kurt Busch
14. Justin Haley
15. Cole Custer
16. Todd Gilliland
17. Noah Gragson
18. Landon Cassill
19. Kaz Grala
20. BJ McLeod
21. JJ Yeley
Duel 2
1. Alex Bowman
2. Aric Almirola
3. Martin Truex Jr.
4. Denny Hamlin
5. Harrison Burton
6. Joey Logano
7. Christopher Bell
8. Bubba Wallace
9. Kyle Busch
10. Austin Dillon
11. Michael McDowell
12. Ty. Dillon
13. Kevin Harvick
14. Chris Buescher
15. Corey LaJoie
16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
17. Cody Ware
18. Jacques Villeneuve (locked in)
19. Greg Biffle
20. Ryan Preece
21. Timmy Hill
