Ross Chastain shot to the pole for Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series BetRivers 200 race at Dover Motor Speedway.
DOVER, Del. -- Ross Chastain shot to the pole for Saturday's NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series BetRivers 200 race at Dover Motor Speedway.
Chastain turned in a lap of 23.317 seconds, averaging 154.394 mph around the 1-mile track in his No. 9 Roto-Rooter Chevrolet. He bested Brandon Jones' No. 20 Menards/DAP Toyota by less than a tenth of a second (23.372 seconds) in qualifying.
Chastain is the first of six Chevrolets in the top-10 while Jones is the first of four Toyotas in the top-10.
Chastain's quasi-teammate, Corey Day, qualified third. Two of his actual JR Motorsports teammates, Rajah Caruth and Carson Kvapil, qualified fourth and seventh.
Haas Factory Team's Sam Mayer and Richard Childress Racing's Jesse Love qualified sixth and 10th, respectively, as the other Chevrolets in the top-10.
Jones' teammates Taylor Gray and William Sawalich qualified fifth and eighth, while Sam Hunt Racing's Harrison Burton qualified ninth.
TOP-10 STARTERS: Ross Chastain, Brandon Jones, Corey Day, Rajah Caruth, Taylor Gray, Sam Mayer, Carson Kvapil, William Sawalich, Harrison Burton, Jesse Love.
Notable qualifiers outside of the top-10 include Sheldon Creed, who qualified 12th after trying to do his best Dukes of Hazzard impression in last week's race at Watkins Glen.
Other drivers in Chase contention who qualified outside of the top-10 were Justin Allgaier (13th), Parker Retzlaff (14th), Brent Crews (16th), Austin Hill (17th) and Sammy Smith (18th).
BJ McLeod had a solid start in DGM Racing's No. 92 Chevrolet, qualifying 19th. McLeod is in the car this week as the team's primary driver, Josh Williams, works through issues with funding to be in the car.
Garrett Smithley, who qualified 30th, will make his 300th NASCAR start Saturday.
Practice saw Taylor Gray, William Sawalich and Jesse Love run top-three overall. Sawalich, Gray and Love were the three fastest drivers on the 10-lap average chart.
Last year's NOAPS race at Dover saw Connor Zilisch win before rain shortened the race after 134 of 200 laps. Taylor Gray won the first stage, on lap 45, while Zilisch won the second stage, on lap 90, before getting the rain-shortened win.
On the sister track to Dover, Rockingham Speedway, Gray's teammate, William Sawalich won on Easter weekend this year. Brent Crews contended for the win late and Corey Day led the most laps.
The BetRivers 200 goes green just after 4 p.m. ET on the CW, Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.