In a vital race that might flip round his season, Shane van Gisbergen will lead the NASCAR Cup Collection discipline to the inexperienced flag in Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250 at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Van Gisbergen’s lap of 92.776 seconds was sufficient to prime the charts as climate rolled in and ended the qualifying session early. If moist climate presents itself on Sunday, NASCAR does have rain tires out there.
Ryan Preece, Ross Chastain, Ty Gibbs and Michael McDowell rounded out the highest 5, with Kyle Larson, Todd Gilliland, AJ Allmendinger, Joey Logano and Daniel Suarez finishing the highest 10.
Different notable qualifying efforts embrace Kyle Busch in eleventh, Chase Elliott in twelfth, Ryan Blaney in 18th, Tyler Reddick in twenty second and William Byron in twenty seventh.
Chase Briscoe, who got here into the weekend having received three poles in a row, certified nineteenth. In the meantime, Christopher Bell, who received the primary highway course race of the season at Circuit of the Americas on March 2, certified thirty first.
Ryan Truex will begin thirty sixth as he fills in for Denny Hamlin, with Katherine Legge rounding out the sector in thirty seventh.
The Viva Mexico 250 will go inexperienced shortly after 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, with protection on Prime Video, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. Pre-race protection will start at 2 p.m. ET on Prime Video and MRN.
