Chase Briscoe Wins the Daytona 500 Pole with Austin Cindric Second
By: Last Lap Insider
Published: February 13, 2025 at 15:59
| Updated: February 17, 2025 at 15:27
Photo by: Brandon
CHASE BRISCOE WINS THE DAYTONA 500 POLE WITH AUSTIN CINDRIC SECOND – DUEL RACE LINE-UPS: Toyota has finally won their first ever Daytona 500 pole!
Chase Briscoe, with his new team at Joe Gibbs Racing, is blistering fast right out of the gate and will start this years “Great American Race” from the P1 spot after claiming the pole!
For Briscoe, this is his third career pole in the Cup Series.
Austin Cindric will start alongside the No. 19 Toyota qualifying his Team Penske No. 2 Ford second.
Along with Briscoe and Cindric, Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson are locked into Sunday’s big show as their two Toyotas were the quickest among the go or go home entries.
With the “World Class Driver Provisional,” 4-time Indianapolis 500 champion Helio Castroneves is also guaranteed a spot.
The remainder of the field will be determined by Thursday nights Duel races.
Daytona 500 Front Row:
- Chase Briscoe 49.249
- Austin Cindric 49.325
Duel 1 Starting Line-Up:
- Chase Briscoe
- Ryan Preece
- Josh Berry
- Austin Dillon
- Ty Dillon
- Zane Smith
- Kyle Busch
- Chase Elliott
- Michael McDowell
- AJ Allmendinger
- William Byron
- Martin Truex Jr – Open Car 🔐
- Ty Gibbs
- Tyler Reddick
- Bubba Wallace
- Justin Haley
- Justin Allgaier – Open Car 🤞
- Carson Hocevar
- Ross Chastain
- Helio Castroneves – Open Car 🔐 Provisional
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr
- Chandler Smith – Open Car🤞
- JJ Yeley – Open Car🤞
Duel 2 Starting Line-Up:
- Austin Cindric
- Joey Logano
- Denny Hamlin
- Christopher Bell
- Kyle Larson
- Alex Bowman
- Todd Gilliland
- Brad Keselowski
- Chris Buescher
- Ryan Blaney
- Noah Gragson
- Daniel Suarez
- Riley Herbst
- Jimmie Johnson – Open Car 🔐
- Shane Van Gisbergen
- Cole Custer
- Corey Lajoie – Open Car🤞
- Erik Jones
- John Hunter Nemechek
- Anthony Alfredo – Open Car🤞
- BJ McLeod – Open Car🤞
- Cody Ware
