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Elliott on pole as rain washes out Dover Cup qualifying
Chase Elliott will start from the pole at Dover Motor Speedway after rain washed out all planned activity on Saturday.
Cup Series teams will race the Autotrader EchoPark 400 without any previous time on the racetrack. NASCAR attempted to dry the track after it rained, but another downpour shortly after 2 p.m. local time soaked the racetrack again.
Elliott starts on the pole through the performance metric (which weighs previous race finish and owner points). He finished third last weekend at Sonoma Raceway and the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet is second in owner points.
Chase Briscoe will join Elliott on the front row. Christopher Bell starts third and Tyler Reddick starts fourth.
Reddick is one of the final four drivers in the in-season tournament.
William Byron, Shane van Gisbergen, Michael McDowell, Joey Logano, Ty Gibbs and Kyle Busch fill out the top 10. Byron is the Cup Series point leader.
Gibbs is matched up against Reddick in the in-season tournament this weekend.
Denny Hamlin, the defending Dover winner, starts 13th, Josh Berry 14th, Brad Keselowski 15th and Alex Bowman 16th.
Daniel Suarez starts 18th, Ross Chastain 19th, Ty Dillon 21st, Bubba Wallace 22nd, Kyle Larson 25th, Austin Cindric 26th and John Hunter Nemechek 28th.
Dillon and Nemechek are matched against each other in the final four of the in-season tournament.
Ryan Blaney starts 31st.
There are 37 teams entered at Dover. The green flag is after 2 p.m. ET Sunday.
Kelly Crandall
Kelly has been on the NASCAR beat full-time since 2013, and joined RACER as chief NASCAR writer in 2017. Her work has also appeared in NASCAR.com, the NASCAR Illustrated magazine, and NBC Sports. A corporate communications graduate from Central Penn College, Crandall is a two-time George Cunningham Writer of the Year recipient from the National Motorsports Press Association.
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