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NASCAR: Daytona starting lineup – Kevin Harvick takes another pole

By Asher Fair

Kevin Harvick, Stewart-Haas Racing, NASCAR Martin/Getty Images)
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Through the new NASCAR qualifying formula, Kevin Harvick took another pole position, this time for the 2020 regular season finale at Daytona International Speedway.

The new NASCAR qualifying formula is being used for the third time for the Cup Series this weekend at Daytona International Speedway, and for the second time, it has secured Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick a pole position.

The 44-year-old Bakersfield, California native also took the pole position for the race at the Daytona International Speedway road course two weekends ago, the first race for which this formula was used to determine the starting lineup.

By having the best combination of most recent race finish (50%), position in the owner standings (35%), and rank of fastest lap in the most recent race (15%), Harvick is set to start the 2020 regular season finale from the pole position.

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Harvick won this past Sunday’s race at Dover International Speedway, and his #4 Ford comfortably sits atop the owner standings. In fact, he has already clinched the regular season championship due to his 134-point lead in the driver standings over Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin, who drives the #11 Toyota, in second place.

Finally, in terms of the fastest lap from this past Sunday’s race at the Monster Mile, Harvick’s ranked on top, meaning he swept all three categories of the qualifying metric.

Here is the full unofficial starting lineup for the 2020 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

Starting Lineup
1st – Kevin Harvick
2nd – Martin Truex Jr.
3rd – Joey Logano
4th – Brad Keselowski
5th – Aric Almirola
6th – William Byron
7th – Jimmie Johnson
8th – Alex Bowman
9th – Ryan Blaney
10th – Denny Hamlin
11th – Kyle Busch
12th – Austin Dillon
13th – Kurt Busch
14th – Clint Bowyer
15th – Matt DiBenedetto
16th – Cole Custer
17th – Chris Buescher
18th – Tyler Reddick
19th – Matt Kenseth
20th – Erik Jones
21st – Bubba Wallace
22nd – Ryan Newman
23rd – Christopher Bell
24th – John Hunter Nemechek
25th – Corey LaJoie
26th – Michael McDowell
27th – Chase Elliott
28th – Ryan Preece
29th – Ty Dillon
30th – Daniel Suarez
31st – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
32nd – Brennan Poole
33rd- J.J Yeley
34th- Quin Houff
35th – Timmy Hill
36th – Ross Chastain
37th – Joey Gase
38th – James Davison
39th – Josh Bilicki
40th – Brendan Gaughan

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Tune in to NBC at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 29 for the live broadcast of the 2020 Coke Zero Sugar 400 from Daytona International Speedway.

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