NASCAR lineup at Martinsville: starting order, pole for 2024 Xfinity 500 based on qualifying results

Racing returns to Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia for the second time this calendar year. The stakes are higher than in April as the finals and the ninth race of the playoffs approach.

Saturday’s Xfinity 500, which marks the final race of Round 8, features the shortest 0.526-mile hairpin course in the NASCAR Cup Series.

In the Martinsville race in the first week of AprilHendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson took the top spot with a lap time of 19.718 seconds and a speed of just over 96 mph. However, his teammate William Byron took the win, leading 88 of the 415 laps.

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Larson and Chase Elliott filled out the rest of the podium for Hendrick’s sweep of the franchise’s 40th anniversary. It was Byron’s third win of the season and moved him into third place in the drivers’ championship standings, tied with Denny Hamlin.

All three Chevrolet drivers have qualified for the playoffs and will compete at Ridgeway this weekend with five other top drivers — Joe Gibbs’ Hamlin and Christopher Bell, Penske’s Ryan Blaney, Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick as the sole entry for 23XI Racing.

Reddick wins at Homestead-Miami Speedway, joining Logano in the official Championship 4 field following the controversial disqualification of fellow Hendrick driver Alex Bowman a week earlier at Charlotte after his Chevy was deemed “too light” to compete.

The remaining two spots are still up for grabs in Martinsville, with Bell holding a 29-point lead over the playoff mark and Byron sitting just outside the door. Here’s everything you need to know about NASCAR’s lineup this week at Martinsville, including the starting order and pole for the 2024 Xfinity 500 based on qualifying results.

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Who won the 2024 Martinsville Xfinity 500 pole?

Martin Truex Jr. took the pole position for the race by marking the penultimate start of his full-time NASCAR Cup career. #19 driver Joe Gibbs’ fastest lap was 96.190 mph, ahead of Elliott and Byron by 0.35 and 0.239 mph, respectively.

Ty Gibbs finished fifth, completing the team’s first line and pushing both Hendrick drivers into second and third. Chase Briscoe is fourth as the sole representative of Stewart-Haas Racing.

Hamlin would probably also be on the line with a third-place practice speed of 94.884. but he crashed at turn three after his fastest lapsending it to the back of the field for missing the rest of Saturday’s qualifying for repairs.

The driver entered the race 18 points down the line when he rear-ended the car into the wall after radioing the crew that his throttle was stuck. Joe Gibbs would have been three drivers ahead if Hamlin had avoided the collision.

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The 2024 Martinsville Xfinity 500 lineup