Denny Hamlin gained the Busch Pole Award for Sunday’s YellaWood 500 NASCAR Cup Sequence Playoffs race at Talladega Superspeedway (2 p.m. ET on NBC/NBC Sports activities App, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

The lineup was decided utilizing NASCAR’s competition-based formulation, which is a complete quantity based mostly on the earlier occasion: 15% of a quickest lap time place, 25% of the driving force’s remaining race end place, 25% of the proprietor’s remaining race place and 35% of the proprietor factors place.

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The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver can be joined by Kurt Busch on the entrance row within the No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet.

Within the majority of nationwide sequence occasions since NASCAR‘s Could return, beginning lineups have been set by random attracts. The brand new construction attracts on efficiency from each particular person races and season-long outcomes, fairly than leaving a spread of beginning spots as much as probability.

See the total beginning lineup for Sunday’s race under.

Beginning spot Driver Automobile # Staff 1 Denny Hamlin (P) 11 Joe Gibbs Racing 2 Kurt Busch (P) 1 Chip Ganassi Racing three Martin Truex Jr. (P) 19 Joe Gibbs Racing four Alex Bowman (P) 88 Hendrick Motorsports 5 Kevin Harvick (P) four Stewart-Haas Racing 6 Kyle Busch (P) 18 Joe Gibbs Racing 7 Brad Keselowski (P) 2 Staff Penske eight Joey Logano (P) 22 Staff Penske 9 Clint Bowyer (P) 14 Stewart-Haas Racing 10 Chase Elliott (P) 9 Hendrick Motorsports 11 Aric Almirola (P) 10 Stewart-Haas Racing 12 Austin Dillon (P) three Richard Childress Racing 13 Matt DiBenedetto 21 Wooden Brothers Racing 14 Ryan Blaney 12 Staff Penske 15 Chris Buescher 17 Roush Fenway Racing 16 Erik Jones 20 Joe Gibbs Racing 17 Jimmie Johnson 48 Hendrick Motorsports 18 Cole Custer 41 Stewart-Haas Racing 19 Ryan Newman 6 Roush Fenway Racing 20 Matt Kenseth 42 Chip Ganassi Racing 21 William Byron 24 Hendrick Motorsports 22 Christopher Bell 95 Leavine Household Racing 23 John Hunter Nemechek 38 Entrance Row Motorsports 24 Michael McDowell 34 Entrance Row Motorsports 25 Ryan Preece 37 JTG Daugherty Racing 26 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing 27 Bubba Wallace 43 Richard Petty Motorsports 28 Ty Dillon 13 Germain Racing 29 Corey LaJoie 32 Go Fas Racing 30 Tyler Reddick eight Richard Childress Racing 31 Daniel Suarez 96 Gaunt Brothers Racing 32 Brennan Poole 15 Premium Motorsports 33 Quin Houff 00 StarCom Racing 34 JJ Yeley 27 Rick Ware Racing 35 Justin Haley 77 Spire Motorsports 36 Joey Gase 51 Petty Ware Racing 37 Timmy Hill 66 Motorsports Enterprise Administration 38 James Davison 53 Rick Ware Racing 39 Brendan Gaughan 62 Beard Motorsports