DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. When the 67th Daytona 500 begins on Sunday, the field will be chasing Chase Briscoe, who gave Toyota its first-ever pole in NASCARs biggest race.

Briscoe won the pole at 182.745 miles per hour in the No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing.

A great way to start our season, unbelievable way to start off the year, unbelievable way to start off with Toyota, said Briscoe, a native of Mitchell, Indiana. To be able to be the guy to deliver them the first anything when theyve already accomplished so much is pretty cool.

Man, to think Im going to start on the front row or on the pole of the great American race with ultimately the great American brand of Bass Pro Shops is unbelievable. I cant thank Coach (Joe) Gibbs enough, the entire Joe Gibbs Racing organization. The whole off-season everybody kept telling me the focus was trying to qualify better at superspeedways. Thats something I really struggled at last year. For our 19 group to come here and sit on the pole at the biggest race of the year is pretty special.

I cant believe it. Super appreciative of this opportunity with Bass Pro, Toyota, Joe Gibbs. Unbelievable way to start our season. Hopefully we can carry it on now.

Briscoe will start on the pole for both the Daytona 500 and Thursday nights first Duel.

I dont know if this changes our approach, if we try to just lay back down or what. Truthfully, I would like to race and at least feel my car out.

Its hard to ever know what you have in practice. I felt like in practice, my car was really, really good. To go out there in qualifying and do the lap we did, man, I guess I was right.

Curious to see how its going to race. I feel like our car definitely has speed; its just a matter if its going to race good.

I dont know if this changes our approach for tomorrow night. Its good to start up front and determine our own destiny.

Team Penskes Austin Cindric was the second fastest at 182.463 miles per hour in the No. 2 Discount Tire Ford for Team Penske.

Its obviously a huge credit to the guys on the 2 car, building a really fast race car, a lot of fast Fords in the field, really cool, Cindric said. Starting pole would be better. Chase and I havent compared race results in our entire career, just take jabs at each other for qualifying results. This one is going to sting for a while.

Congratulations to him and Coach and those guys. Pretty good to start on the front row with one of my good friends. All in all, a great box checked for the start of this week. I think every single part of this weekend is important to setting up with an opportunity to win this race on Sunday.

Thats another one, pit selection, obviously controlling your destiny at the start of the race. Well try to do the best we can to learn about our car tomorrow night.

Yeah, good start.

Briscoe and Cindric are the only two drivers who are locked into a starting position for the 67th Daytona 500. The remainder of the order will be determined in Thursday nights two Blue Green Vacations Duels qualifying races.

Truex & Johnson Lock In

Former NASCAR Cup Series champions Martin Truex Jr. and seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson were the two Open drivers locked into the field based on lap speed.

Truex was 22nd at 181.302 miles per hour in the No. 56 Tricon Garage Toyota. Johnson was 29th in the No. 84 Toyota for Legacy Motor Club at 180.785 mph.

Final Round 

In the final round of qualifications, Kyle Larson was first out in the final round and ran a lap at 181.737 miles per hour in the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. Denny Hamlin was next in the No. 11 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and turned a lap at 182.138 mph.

Josh Berry took over the No. 1 positions at 182.275 mph in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford.

That didnt last long as Team Penskes Joey Logano raced around the 2.5-mile Daytona Intl Speedway at 182.341 miles per hour in the No. 22 Shell Chevrolet.

Cindric knocked off Logano in the No. 2 Discount Tire Ford at 182.463 mph.

That left Ryan Preece and Chase Briscoe.

Preece wasnt quite fast enough to take the pole with a lap at 182.426 mph in the No. 60 Ford.

But nobody was faster than Briscoe, who gave Toyota its first-ever Daytona 500 pole at 182.745 mph in the No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing.

By the time it was over, it was Briscoe first followed by Cindric, Preece, Logano, Berry, Hamlin, Austin Dillon, Bell, Ty Dillon and Larson.

Team Penske made up two of the top-four spots in the final round.

Castroneves Unable Lock In On Time

Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves will start his first NASCAR Cup Series race in the Daytona 500 because of NASCAR waiver an Open Exemption Provisional for World Class Drivers. The Indy 500 legend was hoping to make the race based on speed.

Instead, his lap wasnt fast enough at 179.752 miles per hour in the No. 91 Wendys Chevrolet for Trackhouse Racings Project91 entry to advance on speed among the Open Entries.

This morning, the lap wasnt that bad, so maybe it was different atmospheric conditions, Castroneves said. Man, that is not what I expected.

Were going to race our way in tomorrow night.

The number of cars that will start Sundays Daytona 500 will be determined by Castroneves. If he doesnt race his way into the lineup as one of the two drivers that will advance in each of Thursday nights Blue Green Vacations Duels, he gets the NASCAR provisional and 41 cars will line up for the race. That will be the most to start the Daytona 500 since 2015, when 43-car starting lineups was still the standard.

The caveat, though, is that entry will not receive any prize money or points for Trackhouse Racing.

If Castroneves should advance through the Duels, 40 cars would start, and that entry would quality for prize money and points.

Trackhouse was the only team that field an entry for the Open Exemption Provisional before the 90-day deadline and Castroneves is the only driver that qualifies for it.

When each car completed its qualification attempt in the first session, there were plenty of big-name drivers that missed the cut as only the top 10 advanced.

Those included Alex Bowman (12^th), Kyle Busch (13^th), Chase Elliott (15^th), Brad Keselowski (16^th), Chris Buescher (18^th), Ryan Blaney (20^th) and defending Daytona 500 winner William Byron (21^st).

First Round

Chase Briscoe was the fasted in Round One at 182.860 mph in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota followed by Ryan Preece in the No. 60 Ford at 182.349 mph, 2022 Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric in the No. 2 Ford at 182.297 mph, three-time and defending NASCAR Cup Series Champion Joey Logano in the No. 22 Shell Ford at 182.183 mph and Ty Dillon in the No. 10 Chevrolet at 181.965 mph.

Positions 6-10 were in order rookie Josh Berry in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford at 181.877 mph, Austin Dillon in the No. 3 Chevrolet at 181.866 mph, Christopher Bell in the No. 20 Toyota at 181.848 mph, Denny Hamlin in the No. 11 Toyota at 181.833 mph and Kyle Larson in the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at 181.803 mph.

Those 10 drivers went out in inverse order to determine the front row for the 67th Daytona 500.