Ryan Blaney feels at home at Iowa Speedway. Blaney turned a lap of 134.191 mph in Saturday’s qualifying to win the pole for Sunday’s 350-lap NASCAR Cup Series race at the .875-mile oval.
Blaney’s History at Iowa Speedway
Blaney won the inaugural Cup Series race at the track in 2024. He has two other wins at the track — an O’Reilly Auto Parts Series win in 2015 and picked up his first Truck Series race win here in 2012.
Blaney comes into the race third in the series point standings. He is 120 points behind series leader Denny Hamlin with four races left to determine a regular-season champion before The Chase begins.
Kyle Larson will start alongside Blaney on the front row. Joey Logano was third in qualifying and Brad Keselowski was fourth, although Keselowski likely will have to go to a backup car after hitting the wall in Turn 1 on his second qualifying lap.
Original reporting: KCCI Des Moines — read the source article.
