NASCAR Cup Series
Justin Allgaier Substituting for Alex Bowman at Las Vegas
Mar 11, 2026
Christopher Bell will lead the field to the green flag in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, earning his fourth career pole at the 1.5-mile speedway in Sin City.
Bell, who is looking for his first win of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, busted off a lap time of 28.853 seconds (187.156 mph), which was able to top the next closest challenger by 0.150 seconds.
The pole is the 15th of Bell's NASCAR Cup Series career, and it comes in his 221st career start. While Bell has always qualified extremely well at LVMS, he has not been able to parlay that into a race win in the NASCAR Cup Series just yet. He'll look to nab his first Vegas triumph on Sunday.
In what amounted to a Toyota Racing sweep of the top-four positions, it was Bell's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin, who secured the second starting spot in Saturday's qualifying session.
Hamlin was followed by Ty Gibbs, and Bubba Wallace, who will make up the second row of the starting grid for Sunday's race.
Kyle Larson (5th) was the highest non-Toyota driver in the qualifying results, while Ryan Blaney, Tyler Reddick, Ryan Preece, William Byron, and Chris Buescher rounded out the top-10 qualifiers.
Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube Starting Lineup
| Pos | Car | Driver | Lap time | Diff | Speed |
| 1 | 20 | Christopher Bell | 28.853 | 0.000 | 187.156 |
| 2 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | 29.003 | 0.150 | 186.188 |
| 3 | 54 | Ty Gibbs | 29.063 | 0.210 | 185.803 |
| 4 | 23 | Bubba Wallace | 29.068 | 0.215 | 185.771 |
| 5 | 5 | Kyle Larson | 29.103 | 0.250 | 185.548 |
| 6 | 12 | Ryan Blaney | 29.160 | 0.307 | 185.185 |
| 7 | 45 | Tyler Reddick | 29.168 | 0.315 | 185.134 |
| 8 | 60 | Ryan Preece | 29.205 | 0.352 | 184.900 |
| 9 | 24 | William Byron | 29.217 | 0.364 | 184.824 |
| 10 | 17 | Chris Buescher | 29.245 | 0.392 | 184.647 |
| 11 | 3 | Austin Dillon | 29.250 | 0.397 | 184.615 |
| 12 | 38 | Zane Smith | 29.252 | 0.399 | 184.603 |
| 13 | 7 | Daniel Suarez | 29.279 | 0.426 | 184.433 |
| 14 | 43 | Erik Jones | 29.285 | 0.432 | 184.395 |
| 15 | 9 | Chase Elliott | 29.289 | 0.436 | 184.370 |
| 16 | 97 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 29.294 | 0.441 | 184.338 |
| 17 | 1 | Ross Chastain | 29.338 | 0.485 | 184.062 |
| 18 | 19 | Chase Briscoe | 29.343 | 0.490 | 184.030 |
| 19 | 77 | Carson Hocevar | 29.356 | 0.503 | 183.949 |
| 20 | 35 | Riley Herbst | 29.363 | 0.510 | 183.905 |
| 21 | 22 | Joey Logano | 29.376 | 0.523 | 183.824 |
| 22 | 48 | Justin Allgaier(i) | 29.376 | 0.523 | 183.824 |
| 23 | 47 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. | 29.387 | 0.534 | 183.755 |
| 24 | 8 | Kyle Busch | 29.455 | 0.602 | 183.331 |
| 25 | 88 | Connor Zilisch # | 29.478 | 0.625 | 183.187 |
| 26 | 42 | John Hunter Nemechek | 29.493 | 0.640 | 183.094 |
| 27 | 34 | Todd Gilliland | 29.493 | 0.640 | 183.094 |
| 28 | 6 | Brad Keselowski | 29.504 | 0.651 | 183.026 |
| 29 | 16 | AJ Allmendinger | 29.530 | 0.677 | 182.865 |
| 30 | 71 | Michael McDowell | 29.652 | 0.799 | 182.113 |
| 31 | 2 | Austin Cindric | 29.690 | 0.837 | 181.879 |
| 32 | 21 | Josh Berry | 29.745 | 0.892 | 181.543 |
| 33 | 51 | Cody Ware | 29.770 | 0.917 | 181.391 |
| 34 | 4 | Noah Gragson | 30.059 | 1.206 | 179.647 |
| 35 | 41 | Cole Custer | 30.250 | 1.397 | 178.512 |
| 36 | 10 | Ty Dillon | 30.607 | 1.754 | 176.430 |
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