Chase Briscoe gives Toyota its first Daytona 500 pole; will start first in his Joe Gibbs Racing debut

Chase Briscoe will start first in his debut for Joe Gibbs Racing, putting a Toyota on the pole position of the Daytona 500 for the first time in history.

Briscoe, who drove the past four seasons for Stewart-Haas Racing until the team was shuttered, turned a lap at 182.745 mph in the No. 19 Toyota Camry.

“It’s a great way to start our season,” Briscoe told FS1 after his third career pole position in NASCAR’s premier series. “What an unbelievable way to start off the year. Unbelievable way to start off with Toyota, to be able to be the guy to deliver them the first of anything when they’ve already accomplished so much is pretty cool. Man, to think I’m going to start on the pole of the Great American Race is unbelievable.”

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• Dustin Long,

• Dustin Long,

Toyota entered NASCAR’s premier series in 2007 but has lagged behind Chevrolet and Ford in battling for the Daytona 500 pole position until Wednesday night. It’s the 164th pole position in Cup for the manufacturer.

It’s the second Daytona 500 pole position for Joe Gibbs Racing, which last qualified first for the season opener with Bobby Labonte in 1998.

“Just can’t thank Coach Gibbs, the entire Joe Gibbs Racing organization,” Briscoe said. “The whole offseason, everybody kept telling me the focus was trying to qualify better at superspeedways. That’s something I really struggled at last year. For our 19 group to come here and sit on the pole at the biggest race of the year is pretty special.”

How to watch Thursday’s Daytona 500 Duel qualifying races

The field will be set for the 67th Daytona 500 in two 60-lap events at Daytona International Speedway.

• Nate Ryan,

• Nate Ryan,

Austin Cindric qualified second in the No. 2 Ford at 182.463.

With only the top two positions set in the starting lineup, Briscoe and Cindric will form the front row of the 67th Great American Race. The rest of the starting spots will be set by two qualifying races Thursday night.

Starting lineups for Daytona 500 Duel qualifying races

Here is the field will be ordered at the green flag in the two 60-lap events at Daytona International Speedway.

• Nate Ryan,

• Nate Ryan,

“It’s obviously a huge credit to the guys on the 2 car, building a really fast race car, a lot of fast Fords in the field,” Cindric, a former Truck Series teammate of Briscoe, told FS1. “Really cool. Starting pole would be better. Chase and I haven’t compared race results in our entire career, just take jabs at each other for qualifying results. This one is going to sting for a while.

“Congratulations to him and Coach and those guys. Pretty good to start on the front row with one of my good friends. All in all, a great box checked for the start of this week. I think every single part of this weekend is important to setting up with an opportunity to win this race on Sunday.”

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Daytona 500 qualifying results

1. Chase Briscoe, No. 19 Toyota, 49.249 seconds, 182.745 mph
2. Austin Cindric, No. 2 Ford, 49.325, 182.463
3. Ryan Preece, No. 60 Ford, 49.335, 182.426
4. Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford, 49.358, 182.341
5. Josh Berry, No. 21 Ford, 49.376, 182.275
6. Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota, 49.413, 182.138
7. Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet, 49.444, 182.024
8. Christopher Bell, No. 20 Toyota, 49.465, 181.947
9. Ty Dillon, No. 10 Chevrolet, 49.466, 181.943
10. Kyle Larson, No. 5 Chevrolet, 49.522, 181.737
11. Zane Smith, No. 38 Ford, 49.505, 181.800
12. Alex Bowman, No. 48 Chevrolet, 49.506, 181.796
13. Kyle Busch, No. 8 Chevrolet, 49.507, 181.792
14. Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Ford, 49.535, 181.690
15. Chase Elliott, No. 9 Chevrolet, 49.538, 181.679
16. Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford, 49.545, 181.653
17. Michael McDowell, No. 71 Chevrolet, 49.571, 181.558
18. Chris Buescher, No. 17 Ford, 49.573, 181.550
19. AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Chevrolet, 49.616, 181.393
20. Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Ford, 49.630, 181.342
21. William Byron, No. 24 Chevorlet, 49.636, 181.320
22. Martin Truex Jr., No. 56 Toyota, 49.641, 181.302*
23. Noah Gragson, No. 4 Ford, 49.660, 181.232
24. Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota, 49.695, 181.105
25. Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Chevrolet, 49.742, 180.934
26. Tyler Reddick, No. 45 Toyota, 49.744, 180.926
27. Riley Herbst, No. 35 Toyota, 49.770, 180.832
28. Bubba Wallace, No. 23 Toyota, 49.783, 180.785
29. Jimmie Johnson, No. 84 Toyota, 49.783, 180.785*
30 Shane Van Gisbergen, No. 88 Chevrolet, 49.789, 180.763
31. Justin Haley, No. 7 Chevrolet, 49.825, 180.632
32. Cole Custer, No. 41 Ford, 49.830, 180.614
33. Justin Allgaier, No. 40 Chevrolet, 49.863, 180.495*
34. Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Chevrolet, 49.865, 180.487
35. Corey LaJoie, No. 01 Ford, 49.879, 180.437*
36. Erik Jones, No. 43 Toyota, 49.912, 180.317
37. Ross Chastain, No. 1 Chevrolet, 49.997, 180.011
38. John Hunter Nemechek, No. 45 Toyota, 50.025, 179.910
39. Helio Castroneves, No. 91 Cheverolet, 50.069, 179.752*
40. Anthony Alfredo, No. 62 Chevrolet, 50.090 179.677*
41. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Chevrolet, 50.148, 179.469
42. Chandler Smith, No. 66 Ford, 50.351, 178.745*
43. BJ McLeod, No. 78 Chevrolet, 50.626, 177.774*
44. JJ Yeley, No. 44 Chevrolet, 51.055, 176.280*
45. Cody Ware, No. 51 Ford, 51.835, 173.628
* — Open car