NASCAR: 2022 Busch Light Clash – Full heat race lineups
By Asher Fair
A Saturday night qualifying session set the starting lineups for the heat races for the Busch Light Clash, the first ever NASCAR Cup Series race at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
A total of 36 NASCAR Cup Series drivers made a two-lap qualifying run on Saturday evening around the quarter-mile purpose-built track inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ahead of Sunday’s Busch Light Clash.
The better of each driver’s two laps was used to determine the starting lineups for Sunday afternoon’s four 25-lap heat races, which are each set to include nine drivers.
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The top four drivers in each heat race advance to the 150-lap main event, while the remaining 20 drivers get sent to one of the two 50-lap last-chance qualifying races. Each of these two races will send three more drivers into the main event.
One more driver will be added afterward: the highest finisher in the 2021 standings among those not yet qualified.
A full rundown of the new format can be found here.
The fastest four qualifiers from Saturday night are set to start their respective heat races from the pole position. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch led all drivers with a top lap speed of 65.478 miles per hour (13.735 seconds) around the tight, low-banked oval behind the wheel of this #18 Toyota, earning him the pole position for the first heat race.
Other heat race polesitters include Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick, Kaulig Racing’s Justin Haley, and Team Penske’s Joey Logano.
Here are the starting lineups for the four heat races ahead of the Busch Light Clash at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Heat Race No.1
Starting Lineup
1st – Kyle Busch
2nd – Daniel Suarez
3rd – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
4th – Ryan Blaney
5th – Denny Hamlin
6th – Aric Almirola
7th – B.J. McLeod
8th – Todd Gilliland
9th – Ross Chastain
Heat Race No. 2
Starting Lineup
1st – Tyler Reddick
2nd – Cole Custer
3rd – Harrison Burton
4th – Alex Bowman
5th – Bubba Wallace
6th – Austin Dillon
7th – Chase Briscoe
8th – Brad Keselowski
9th – Martin Truex Jr.
Heat Race No. 3
Starting Lineup
1st – Justin Haley
2nd – Chase Elliott
3rd – William Byron
4th – Christopher Bell
5th – A.J. Allmendinger
6th – Kevin Harvick
7th – Chris Buescher
8th – Corey LaJoie
9th – Cody Ware
Heat Race No. 4
Starting Lineup
1st – Joey Logano
2nd – Kyle Larson
3rd – Michael McDowell
4th – Landon Cassill
5th – Austin Cindric
6th – Erik Jones
7th – Ryan Preece
8th – Kurt Busch
9th – Ty Dillon
Busch Light Clash betting odds
Take a look at the betting odds for the top contenders in Sunday’s main event, courtesy of WynnBET.
- Kyle Busch: +450
- Chase Elliott: +475
- Kyle Larson: +550
- Denny Hamlin: +850
- Joey Logano: +850
- Christopher Bell: +1000
- Ryan Blaney: +1000
- Martin Truex Jr.: +1000
- William Byron: +1100
- Kevin Harvick: +1200
- Tyler Reddick: +1200
- Justin Haley: +1750
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Tune in to Fox from 2:00 p.m. ET to 8:00 p.m. ET today for the live broadcast of the festivities from Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The heat races (3:00 p.m. ET), the last-chance qualifying races (4:10 p.m. ET) and the Busch Light Clash itself (6:00 p.m. ET) are all scheduled to take place during this window. If you have not yet begun your free trial of FuboTV, now would be a great time to do so!