Follow along with our live qualifying updates for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series regular season’s penultimate race at Darlington Raceway, the Bojangles’ Southern 500.
This Sunday evening’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway is the penultimate race on the 26-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series regular season schedule.
A total of 39 drivers are set to compete in this race at “The Lady in Black”. Darlington Raceway is one of the 10 tracks on the schedule that only host one race each season, and it is the eighth of nine tracks on the regular season schedule that do so.
Only the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will remain on the schedule following this race prior to the determination of the 16-driver field for the upcoming four-round, 10-race playoffs, and the Brickyard is also only on the schedule once.
Aside of these two tracks, Homestead-Miami Speedway, the site of the season finale, is the only other track remaining on the schedule this season that hasn’t yet hosted a race this year.
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Charlotte Motor Speedway hosts two races, although one is on the oval and the other is on both the oval and the track’s interior road course, also known as the roval. The oval race was contested at the track back in late May while the roval race is scheduled to wrap up the round of 16 of the playoffs in late September.
Entering the Bojangles’ Southern 500, 10 different drivers representing six different teams have been victorious so far in 2019. Nine of these 10 drivers representing five of these six teams are full-time Cup Series drivers, and seven of these nine drivers representing four of these five teams have won multiple races this year.
Meanwhile, 12 different drivers, all full-time drivers, representing six different teams have taken at least one pole position so far this season. However, only six of these 12 drivers representing four of these five teams have taken multiple pole positions in 2019.
Who will qualify where throughout the field for Sunday evening’s 367-lap race around the four-turn, 1.366-mile (2.198-kilometer) Darlington Raceway oval in Darlington, South Carolina? Most importantly, who will take the pole position?
Follow along with our live qualifying updates for the 2019 Bojangles’ Southern 500 to find out.
Qualified
Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Manufacturer – Speed (miles per hour)
1st – William Byron – #24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 172.487
2nd – Brad Keselowski – #2, Team Penske, Ford – 172.088
3rd – Kyle Larson – #42, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – 171.842
4th – Kurt Busch – #1, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – 171.764
5th – Daniel Suarez – #41, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 171.321
6th – Jimmie Johnson – #48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 171.202
7th – Joey Logano – #22, Team Penske, Ford – 171.011
8th – Chase Elliott – #9, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 170.952
9th – Denny Hamlin – #11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 170.827
10th – Ryan Blaney – #12, Team Penske, Ford – 170.744
11th – Kevin Harvick – #4, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 170.679
12th – Chris Buescher – #37, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – 170.578
13th – Clint Bowyer – #14, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 170.566
14th – Austin Dillon – #3, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – 170.507
15th – Erik Jones – #20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 170.466
16th – Alex Bowman – #88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 170.425
17th – Paul Menard – #21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – 170.324
18th – Daniel Hemric – #8, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – 170.206
19th – Matt DiBenedetto – #95, Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – 170.13
20th – Ryan Preece – #47, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – 170.1
21st – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – #17, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – 169.977
22nd – Martin Truex Jr. – #19, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 169.83
23rd – Michael McDowell – #34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – 169.473
24th – Ryan Newman – #6, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – 169.461
25th – Landon Cassill – #00, StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – 169.065
26th – David Ragan – #38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – 169.007
27th – Corey LaJoie – #32, Go Fas Racing, Ford – 168.972
28th – Darrell Wallace Jr. – #43, Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – 168.625
29th – Ty Dillon – #13, Germain Racing, Chevrolet – 168.567
30th – Aric Almirola – #10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 168.244
31st – Ross Chastain – #15, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet – 168.186
32nd – Matt Tifft – #36, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – 167.997
33rd – Kyle Busch – #18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 167.351
34th – Quin Houff – #77, Spire Motorsports, Chevrolet – 165.22
35th – J.J. Yeley – #52, Rick Ware Racing, Ford – 165.042
36th – B.J. McLeod – #51, Petty Ware Racing, Ford – 163.538
37th – Joe Nemechek – #27, Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet – 162.512
38th – Garrett Smithley – #54, Rick Ware Racing, Chevrolet – 160.874
39th – Joey Gase – #66, MBM Motorsports, Toyota – 159.207
The live broadcast of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series regular season’s penultimate race from is set to get underway from Darlington Raceway on NBC at 6:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 1, so be sure to tune in to the Bojangles’ Southern 500.