NASCAR: 2022 Busch Light Clash qualifying – Live updates

Follow along with our live qualifying updates for the first ever NASCAR Cup Series race at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

For the first time in the 44-year history of the annual NASCAR Cup Series season-opening exhibition race, the Busch Light Clash is set to be held at a venue other than Daytona International Speedway.

Last year’s event was the first in race history not to be held at the Daytona Beach, Florida track’s four-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) high-banked oval, as it was contested on the 14-turn, 3.61-mile (5.810-kilometer) road course.

But this year’s race is set to be contested at a purpose-built quarter-mile oval inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the home of the USC Trojans football team.

With the change in location, NASCAR has introduced a new format for the Busch Light Clash.

Tonight, each of the 36 cars on the entry list are slated to make a qualifying attempt in a single-car session. Each driver is set to run two laps around the tight, low-banked track, and the better of those two laps will be the lap that counts on the speed chart.

This qualifying session is slated to set the starting lineups for the four 25-lap heat races tomorrow afternoon, with the fastest driver taking the pole position for the first heat race, the second fastest driver taking the pole position for the second heat race, the third fastest driver taking the pole position for the third heat race, and the fourth fastest driver taking the pole position for the fourth heat race.

Those four heat races precede the two 50-lap last-chance qualifying races, which will solidify the 23-car field for the 150-lap main event.

A full rundown of the new format can be found here.

Who will have the fastest lap in this evening’s qualifying session? Follow along with our live qualifying updates.

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Qualified

Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Manufacturer – Speed
1st – Kyle Busch – #18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 65.478
2nd – Tyler Reddick – #8, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – 65.402
3rd – Justin Haley – #31, Kaulig Racing, Chevrolet – 64.79
4th – Joey Logano – #22, Team Penske, Ford – 64.521
5th – Daniel Suarez – #99, Trackhouse Racing Team, Chevrolet – 64.507
6th – Cole Custer – #41, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 64.502
7th – Chase Elliott – #9, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 64.498
8th – Kyle Larson – #5, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 64.484
9th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – #47, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – 64.461
10th – Harrison Burton – #21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – 64.447
11th – William Byron – #24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 64.41
12th – Michael McDowell – #34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – 64.387
13th – Ryan Blaney – #12, Team Penske, Ford – 64.254
14th – Alex Bowman – #48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – 64.221
15th – Christopher Bell – #20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 64.18
16th – Landon Cassill – #77, Spire Motorsports, Chevrolet – 64.057
17th – Denny Hamlin – #11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 64.043
18th – Bubba Wallace – #23, 23XI Racing, Toyota – 63.939
19th – A.J. Allmendinger – #16, Kaulig Racing, Chevrolet – 63.739
20th – Austin Cindric – #2, Team Penske, Ford – 63.613
21st – Aric Almirola – #10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 63.6
22nd – Austin Dillon – #3, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – 63.573
23rd – Kevin Harvick – #4, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 63.568
24th – Erik Jones – #43, Petty GMS Motorsports, Chevrolet – 63.407
25th – B.J. McLeod – #78, Live Fast Motorsports, Ford – 63.224
26th – Chase Briscoe – #14, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – 63.171
27th – Chris Buescher – #17, RFK Racing, Ford – 63.153
28th – Ryan Preece – #15, Rick Ware Racing, Ford – 63.038
29th – Todd Gilliland – #38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – 62.919
30th – Brad Keselowski – #6, RFK Racing, Ford – 62.915
31st – Corey LaJoie – #7, Spire Motorsports, Chevrolet – 62.823
32nd – Kurt Busch – #45, 23XI Racing, Toyota – 62.34
33rd – Ross Chastain – #1, Trackhouse Racing Team, Chevrolet – 62.279
34th – Martin Truex Jr. – #19, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – 62.215
35th – Cody Ware – #51, Rick Ware Racing, Ford – 62.193
36th – Ty Dillon – #42, Petty GMS Motorsports, Chevrolet – 61.932

Tune in to Fox at 3:00 p.m. ET tomorrow afternoon for the live broadcast of the four Busch Light Clash heat races. The two last-chance qualifying races are scheduled to begin at roughly 4:10 p.m. ET, and the main event is scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. ET.