NASCAR Xfinity Series at Phoenix Lineup 2024: Starting Order & Pole for Championship Race

After a National Debt Relief 250, the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series has arrived at the Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. The NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race will be live on CW at 7 pm ET on Saturday, Nov. 9. The title-deciding race of the 2024 Xfinity Series season and the season's final race will be contested at the one-mile track.

Thirty-eight Xfinity Series drivers will compete over 200 laps in a 200-mile race to secure a chance at driving down Victory Lane while Xfinity Championship 4 drivers will look to become a champion.

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Who is on pole for Championship Race?

In Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying race, the 18-year-old part-time Xfinity driver William Sawalich won his first career pole in the series with a lap time of 26.832 seconds and a speed of 134.168 mph. This will be the third Xfinity start for Sawalich.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Sheldon Creed will share the front row with Sawalich after registering a lap of 133.432 mph. The pair will be followed by Riley Herbst, Chandler Smith, and Austin Hill rounding out the top five.

Jesse Love, the defending Xfinity champion Cole Custer, Sam Mayer, AJ Allmendinger, and Parker Retzlaff are in the top-10 starting lineup for the main event.

The fourth championship 4 driver, Justin Allgaier, will start from the rear of the field in the title-deciding race at Phoenix.

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2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race starting lineup at Phoenix Raceway

Here are the starting positions of the 38 Xfinity Series drivers in the Championship Race at the Phoenix Raceway:

1. #19 - William Sawalich
2. #18 - Sheldon Creed
3. #98 - Riley Herbst
4. #81 - Chandler Smith
5. #21 - Austin Hill
6. #2 - Jesse Love
7. #00 - Cole Custer
8. #1 - Sam Mayer
9. #16 - AJ Allmendinger
10. #31 - Parker Retzlaff
11. #38 - Matt DiBenedetto
12. #5 - Anthony Alfredo
13. #10 - Daniel Dye
14. #45 - Stefan Parsons
15. #8 - Sammy Smith
16. #27 - Jeb Burton
17. #97 - Shane Van Gisbergen
18. #26 - Jeffrey Earnhardt
19. #11 - Josh Williams
20. #43 - Ryan Ellis
21. #88 - Connor Zilisch
22. #51 - Jeremy Clements
23. #28 - Ryan Sieg
24. #15 - Dylan Lupton
25. #29 - Blaine Perkins
26. #42 - Leland Honeyman
27. #92 - Dawson Cram
28. #44 - Brennan Poole
29. #39 - Kyle Sieg
30. #07 - Patrick Emerling
31. #48 - Parker Kligerman
32. #91 - Josh Bilicki
33. #9 - Brandon Jones
34. #35 - Joey Gase
35. #14 - Greg Van Alst
36. #53 - Garrett Smithley
37. #7 - Justin Allgaier
38. #20 - Aric Almirola

Catch the NASCAR Xfinity Series teams and drivers in action at Phoenix Raceway today at 7 p.m. ET.