Connor Zilisch gained the pole for Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Collection race at Rockingham Speedway, however the 18-year-old will not be main the sector to the inexperienced flag on Saturday afternoon.
Whereas Zilisch’s lap time of twenty-two.630 seconds was adequate to earn the pole place, it was revealed that the right-rear tire on his No. 88 Chevrolet was flat in the course of the run. The No. 88 group should change that tire earlier than the race, forcing Zilisch to drop to the rear earlier than the inexperienced flag.
“(The appropriate-rear tire) went flat proper off of 4,” Zilisch told The CW Sports. “Irritating. You qualify within the pole and have to begin on the again.”
Zilisch should work his means by way of the sector on Saturday afternoon with a purpose to earn his second win of 2025.
Parker Retzlaff, who missed out on the pole place by one one-thousandth of a second, will lead the sector to the inexperienced flag alongside Nick Sanchez.
Sanchez, Kasey Kahne and William Sawalich rounded out the top-five qualifiers, with Brandon Jones, Jesse Love, Justin Allgaier, Christian Eckes and Austin Hill finishing the top-10.
Different notable qualifying efforts embody Sam Mayer in eleventh, Taylor Grey in fifteenth, Justin Bonsignore in nineteenth, Carson Kvapil in twenty fifth and Harrison Burton in twenty ninth.
Katherine Legge and Dawson Cram are the 2 drivers who won’t race after failing to qualify inside the mandatory top-32 threshold.
The North Carolina Training Lottery 250 will go inexperienced shortly after 4 p.m. ET, with protection on The CW, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Pre-race protection will start at 3 p.m. ET on The CW and at 3:30 p.m. ET on MRN. Saturday’s race is the primary Xfinity Collection race at Rockingham since 2004.
