NASCAR: 2021 Indianapolis qualifying – Full starting lineup

Sunday morning’s qualifying session set the starting lineup for the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

After the NASCAR Xfinity Series debuted at the track last year and made its second appearance there yesterday afternoon following the IndyCar race, the Cup Series is set for its first ever race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course this afternoon.

The race at the Brickyard had been the Brickyard 400, which was contested on the four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) oval in Speedway, Indiana each year from 1994 to 2020, but that tradition has been pushed out in favor of the influx of road course races on this year’s schedule.

This afternoon’s race around the 13-turn, 2.439-mile (3.925-kilometer) interior road course is set to be a 82-lap race, and it was Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron who took the pole position in this morning’s qualifying session, the penultimate qualifying session of the 36-race 2021 season.

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Byron took the pole position for the antepenultimate race of the 26-race regular season by recording a top lap time of 87.765 seconds (100.044 miles per hour) behind the wheel of his #24 Chevrolet in the second and final round of qualifying for the race.

Set to start beside Byron on the front row in second place behind the wheel of his #14 Ford is Stewart-Haas Racing rookie Chase Briscoe, who won the inaugural Xfinity Series race at the track last season and is looking for his first career Cup Series victory to lock himself into the playoffs.

Hendrick Motorsports teammates Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson are set to shared the second row in third and fourth place behind the wheels of their #9 Chevrolet and #5 Chevrolet, respectively. WynnBET lists Elliott and Larson as the top two favorites for this race, with Elliott at +200 and Larson at +325.

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Here is the full starting lineup for the 2021 Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

Starting Lineup
1st – William Byron
2nd – Chase Briscoe
3rd – Chase Elliott
4th – Kyle Larson
5th – Daniel Suarez
6th – Martin Truex Jr.
7th – Joey Logano
8th – A.J. Allmendinger
9th – Ross Chastain
10th – Cole Custer
11th – Tyler Reddick
12th – Michael McDowell
13th – Austin Cindric
14th – Denny Hamlin
15th – Matt DiBenedetto
16th – Ryan Blaney
17th – Christopher Bell
18th – Aric Almirola
19th – Chris Buescher
20th – Kurt Busch
21st – Kyle Busch
22nd – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
23rd – Austin Dillon
24th – Alex Bowman
25th – Kevin Harvick
26th – Corey LaJoie
27th – Bubba Wallace
28th – Erik Jones
29th – Justin Haley
30th – Ryan Preece
31st – Brad Keselowski
32nd – Ryan Newman
33rd – Anthony Alfredo
34th – James Davison
35th – Andy Lally
36th – Josh Bilicki
37th – Cody Ware
38th – Quin Houff
39th – Garrett Smithley
40th – Timmy Hill

Tune in to NBC at 1:00 p.m. ET this afternoon for the live broadcast of the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, and be sure to start your free trial of FuboTV today if you have not yet done so!