NASCAR starting grid at Indianapolis: Pole position, qualifying results, start time

INDIANAPOLIS – Carson Hocevar has won the pole for Sunday's Brickyard 400. Hocevar completed his qualifying lap around Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 48.232 seconds (186.598 mph) to beat out his Spire Motorsports teammate Daniel Suarez, who took 48.288 seconds.

Hocevar, who's seventh in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, will lead the field to green tomorrow in search of his second career Cup win. After his first Cup win at Talladega Superspeedway in April, the 23-year-old made waves by doing his victory lap while hanging out the window of his car. Hocevar has plans for another noteworthy celebration if he takes the checkered flag on Sunday.

"The grandstands are a little longer, so I could find plenty of other stuff to do," Hocevar said. "I don't know, I think it'll just kind of come to me. I don't want to say it out loud, because I think (IMS owner) Roger Penske would kill me if they knew some of the ideas I had. But also, there's tradition here, so you gotta really watch yourself a bit."

After his Talladega win, Hocevar went on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s The Dale Jr. Download podcast and called the Indianapolis 500 the "ultimate" race he'd like to do. He reiterated that IMS is his favorite track on Saturday and said that winning the Brickyard 400 would make the Indy 500 an "easy ask" to his bosses at TWG Motorsports – which also owns IndyCar's Andretti Global.

"The prestige of this place really raises everybody's intensity," he said. "Everybody's trying here, if not a little bit more, because they know how much it means to everybody."

The Brickyard 400 begins on Sunday at 2 p.m., and Hocevar will be one of the favorites to win the race after capturing the pole.

Who won pole position for the NASCAR race at Indianapolis? NASCAR starting grid for Brickyard 400

ROW 1

1.Carson Hocevar, 186.598 mph

2.Daniel Suarez, 186.382

ROW 2

3.Tyler Reddick, 186.077

4.Ty Gibbs, 185.966

ROW 3

5.Denny Hamlin, 185.835

6.Michael McDowell, 185.762

ROW 4

7.Corey Heim, 185.456

8.Alex Bowman, 185.368

ROW 5

9.A.J. Allmendinger, 185.345

10.Kyle Larson, 185.315

ROW 6

11.Chase Briscoe, 185.269

12.Cole Custer, 185.265

ROW 7

13.Ryan Blaney, 185.197

14.Erik Jones, 185.060

ROW 8

15.Chris Buescher, 184.991

16.Brad Keselowski, 184.896

ROW 9

17.John Hunter Nemechek, 184.877

18.Riley Herbst, 184.782

ROW 10

19.Joey Logano, 184.699

20.Austin Dillon, 184.699

ROW 11

21.William Bryon, 184.574

22.Ross Chastain, 184.540

ROW 12

23.Christopher Bell, 184.287

24.Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 184.245

ROW 13

25.Shane Van Gisbergen, 184.237

26.Josh Berry, 184.128

ROW 14

27.Chase Elliott, 183.887

28.Ty Dillon, 183.869

ROW 15

29.Bubba Wallace, 183.861

30. Zane Smith, 183.494

ROW 16

31.Connor Zilisch, 183.132

32.Austin Hill, 183.083

ROW 17

33.Noah Gragson, 182.990

34.Ryan Preece, 182.786

ROW 18

35.Austin Cindric, 182.726

36.Todd Gilliard, 182.460

ROW 19

37.Cody Ware, 182.072

38.Casey Mears, 179.522

ROW 20

39,Daniel Dye, 178.962

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