Chase Briscoe in a familiar spot in Iowa after claiming 6th pole position of the season

NEWTON Iowa AP Chase Briscoe is starting on the pole for Sunday s NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway Finishing up front on a regular basis is his next goal Briscoe won his sixth pole position of the season during Saturday s qualifying running a lap of mph Despite his qualifying success this season he has just one win this year You getting tired of this Brad Keselowski joked with Briscoe in the media center after qualifying Briscoe got almost the same question when his press conference began It s definitely better than starting mid-pack or whatever Briscoe explained It s getting old not converting them to race wins though that s for sure Briscoe noted the benefits of starting up front It just typically gives you a great opportunity to get stage points and all those things he reported Obviously there s a great pit-stall selection He then added another joke I would love it if we can make a new system where if you get five poles you can contract them in for one race win Briscoe explained expressing happiness Briscoe who was also on the pole for last week s race at Indianapolis had won just two poles in his first four seasons in the Cup Series He had a streak of three consecutive pole wins earlier this season The race cars are really really good truthfully he explained I felt like my entire career even at Stewart-Haas Racing in Cup we d dependably kind of over-exceed where we presumably should qualify And qualifying has unfailingly been I feel ostensibly my strongest thing And now I m just in race cars that let me go run really fast lap times I don t do anything different from what I ve been doing the last four years of my Cup career Just now my cars are faster Wallace relaxes Bubba Wallace emphasized he didn t party too much after winning last Sunday s race at Indianapolis Never mind that it broke a -race winless streak and secured a spot in the playoffs The realities of life Wallace mentioned limited his celebration I ll tell you I did not go hard after the win I m getting older and realize hangovers suck and also having a kid that doesn t care you re hungover Wallace stated with a smile during Saturday s media availability at Iowa Speedway That made me stop after two beers Wallace who will start th comes into Sunday s -lap race with a different attitude knowing he has his spot in the postseason after latest seasons in which he headed into the final weeks of the regular season scrambling for points to try to get into the playoffs I informed my squad right before we started our meeting this week I mentioned Man y all say fatherhood looks good on me Just wait until you see how Bubba locked into the playoffs looks good on me because it s gonna be fun Wallace declared Busch s crash Kyle Busch will start th after not making a qualifying run following a crash in practice Busch s car went nose-first into the wall in turns - after the car bobbled heading into the first turn Got a little bit loose and overcorrected and smacked the fence commented Busch who is th in points and doesn t have a win this season Any time you overcorrect and go head-on it s not good So definitely not one of my favorite crashes but not one I haven t had before Larson s busy weekend Iowa Speedway s date on the schedule worked out perfectly from a logistics standpoint for Kyle Larson who will start third in Sunday s race Larson is halfway through his two-week stay in nearby Knoxville where he is racing in two of the nation s top sprint car events the Nationals this weekend and the Knoxville Nationals for sprint cars next week It s dependably a fun time of year for me declared Larson who has won three Nationals titles including last season Larson finished second in Thursday s A-Main of the Nationals and will start fifth in Saturday night s A-Main Knoxville is just miles from Iowa Speedway so it works out well for Larson this weekend The Cup Series is at Watkins Glen International in New York next Sunday Next week the logistics get a little hectic as we get to the weekend but that s all normal Larson explained Bell apologizes Christopher Bell not only reached out to driver Zane Smith to apologize after last week s crash at Indianapolis he made sure to apologize to the crew members on Smith s Front Row Motorsports unit as they were loading up after the race Bell commented he called Smith on Sunday night and left a voicemail But he also requested to apologize to the unit It was a mistake it was an error on my part that ruined their day Bell stated And so I felt like I owed it to the group members to apologize because it was such a bad mistake And it wasn t hard racing It was just you know a misjudgment on my part Smith did absolutely nothing wrong Bell hooked the right rear of Smith s car sending it into the outside wall I thought that I could sweep underneath of him and clearly you sought to be on the inside at Indy Bell disclosed And so I tried to sweep underneath of him and I tried to make it as last-minute as manageable so that he couldn t counter my move And I misjudged my run and ran to the back of him AP auto racing https apnews com hub auto-racing Source