.jjyeley1 showed off his dirt skills Saturday at Bristol, stunning with a P3 qualifying effort for RickWareRacing. It's Yeley's best starting position for a NASCAR Cup race in nearly 16 years, but can he parlay that into strong finish today?
driver has never qualified higher than ninth for a Cup race in the team's history. Yeley was also the highest-qualifying Ford driver in the field, beating the likes of Penske and Stewart-Haas.
"That went well," said Yeley after his heat race."We obviously didn’t know what to expect. I tried to roll the bottom on our first two little hot laps, just judging off the previous heat race the car didn’t feel very good, so I’m a dirt guy by nature and I knew all of those guys were gonna fight for the bottom, so I said, ‘the heck with it,’ I was gonna go to the top and the car handled really, really good up there. It took me a couple of laps to get into a rhythm.
Most weekends, that's a finish between 25th and 35th. But the uniqueness of the Bristol Dirt event is one that plays to his strengths, and requires a skillset that remains foreign to many of the usual stars of the NASCAR Cup Series. It's a race Yeley always looks forward, saying he"absolutely" has it circled on his calendar. Although he ran decent in 2022 before a late-race incident, he believes he and the No. 15 RWR team can be even stronger this time around.
"Last year, we had a really fast race car and got caught up in someone’s wreck with about 30 to go and felt like we had a top 10 car then. We have more resources here at Rick Ware Racing than we did last year. Obviously, the Ford horsepower was phenomenal.
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