NASCAR lineup in Bristol: starting order, pole to race without qualifying on Sunday

Rain forced NASCAR to cancel the Heat Race Qualifying Cup and Truck Series on Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway. NASCAR will now advance to straight races in both series on Sunday.

With the summer race coming to an end, the starting lineup for the Cup race was cut off from the mathematical formula that NASCAR uses to race without qualification.

The starting positions of the drivers for the Food City Dirt Race (3:30 pm ET TV time, 4 pm; Fox, TSN5, PRN, SeriousXM NASCAR Radio) were based on four factors:

• Driver finishing position from last race (25 percent)
• Car owner’s finishing position from last race (25 percent)
• Team owner ranking (35 percent)
• Fastest lap from last race (15 percent)

Below is the starting lineup for Sunday’s NASCAR race at the 0.533-mile dirt track in Bristol, which was determined without qualification.

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Kyle Larson was awarded pole status after Saturday’s summer race was canceled. Larson is second in the Cup Series point standings after six races, with one win, three top-fives and five top-10s. Points leader Denny Hamlin will start outside of Larsen in second place. Hamlin has no wins but five top-five and five top-10 finishes.

Larson’s championship experience as a dirt racer should make him an even bigger favorite to win Sunday’s race.

The rest of the top 10 after Larsen and Hamlin: Ryan Blandy, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick, Alex Bowman, William Byron, Austin Dillon and Joey Logano.

NASCAR launches lineup in Bristol

The starting lineup for Sunday’s race in Bristol was determined through a mathematical formula that NASCAR adopted late in the 2020 season. The formula produced this starting lineup for Sunday’s NASCAR race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Food City Dirt Race: