For the second time in the last three seasons, Ty Majeski has placed his ThorSport Racing entry on the pole for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event at Daytona International Speedway.
Piloting the No. 98 Road Ranger Ford F-150, Majeski collected his sixth career pole position in the NASCAR Truck Series and the first pole at the 2.5-mile superspeedway for Ford Performance since 2010.
The Seymour, Wisconsin-native came to life in the second and final round of single-vehicle qualifying on Friday, topping the speed charts with a time of 50.345 seconds (176.767mph), narrowly beating out 2016 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter.
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Sauter, a veteran of the NASCAR Truck Series, will start alongside Majeski on the front row for Friday’s 250-mile race from Daytona International Speedway, after clocking in 0.018 seconds slower than his former teammate at ThorSport Racing.
The 45-year-old driver looks to have a solid piece for this weekend’s season-opener, after leading the field in practice on Thursday, while running in a pack.
Corey LaJoie, making a one-off start for Spire Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, will start the race from third place, while Matt Mills and Tyler Anrkum, both drivers who have new rides for this season, complete the top five.
Nick Sanchez, last season’s pole winner at Daytona, qualified sixth in his No. 2 Chevrolet for REV Racing, while Daniel Dye, Tanner Gray, Bayley Currey, and Thad Moffitt — driving for the newly-formed Faction46 — rounded out the top-10.
Other notables include Matt Crafton (11th), Taylor Gray (12th), Toni Breidinger (13th), Dean Thompson (15th), Jake Garcia (16th), Stewart Friesen (17th), Chase Purdy (18th), Rajah Caruth (20th), Layne Riggs (21st), Ben Rhodes (24th), Christian Eckes (25th), and Corey Heim (26th).
With 40 entries for Friday’s NASCAR Truck Series event, four drivers will be heading home before the drop of the green flag, those being Mason Maggio, Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ryan Huff, and Clay Greenfield.
