Spire front-row lockout, Brickyard 400 pole
NASCAR Cup Series · grid · 2026-07-26
Carson Hocevar (No. 77, Spire Motorsports) won the Busch Light Pole Award for the 2026 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a qualifying lap of 186.598 mph (48.232 seconds) on July 25, 2026. Teammate Daniel Suarez qualified second at 186.382 mph, giving Spire Motorsports a complete front-row lockout. The result is Hocevar's second pole of the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season and the third of his career, coming roughly three months after his first Cup Series win at Talladega.