How Ford’s major qualification can give him an edge on the race day

Ford dominance in qualifying on drafting tracks is not at all braking news – for Toyota, in the Detona 500, outside the shock poll of the Chess Brisco (later overshadhed by the growing inspection issues of the rear spiiler), Ford has earned the top spot. Grid in ten of the last 11 drafting races.

This week, Ryan Blani Earned another pole status for Blue Oval for Sunday’s Atlanta race, defeated him Team pension Teammight Austin syndric Only by 0.002s. It was an impressive performance for Penscay with Penscay Wood brothers racing Team in third place Josh Berry And reign champion Joy logano In fourth (And this time there is no web,

But to make the qualifying session of Saturday so amazing was the fact that Ford drivers earned ten of the first eleven spots on the grid. Kyle Busch A Chevrolet was the only interlopper, in sixth place.

Almost with almost every Ford running in the series on the front in Atlanta, the blue oval “wall” will make it difficult for the chewing and Toyota drivers to fight further in its own way. The first phase is only 30 laps, so it will be a straight sprint for stage points with no green-flying pitstop. The second stage is a repetition of that, allowing Ford to potentially allow a good part of the race to assemble piles of stage points.

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The Blane is established on Sunday for an ideal start, with his colleagues with the sea of ​​force around them. He told the media after his pole run, “… it’s confident that when you have more tussle. You never know that someone is going to hang you out to dry, but it is racing. They can do the same. What they are going to do.

“(Linking) Initially, and hopefully it lives in this way, but things are going to convert into the entire race,” Blane explained. “It’s a bit good, at least at the beginning of the race, hope the first stage., You can control. But it’s not going to happen completely, right? You are going to reshuffle at some point .

Although it is expected that other people will find their way through the force ground and challenge at some point, it will take some of the biggest names of some time. Highest Hendric motorsports Chevrolet is a quartet Alex boman 13th and top Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota is the brisko in the 25th. Meanwhile, only three Ford drivers gained worse than 11th (Two entries of rick ware racing And Haas Factory Team).

Ford (more especially pension) was 0.003s shy in the Atlanta race last year Blaney lost in the nearest three-wide finish in history While Logano won in the fall. Should Ford drivers manage to live together on Sunday, it would be foolish to bet against them.