NASCAR Cup Pocono starting lineup: Denny Hamlin earns pole as Wallace, Hocevar spin
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Key Points:
- Denny Hamlin secured the pole position for the NASCAR Cup race at Pocono Raceway with a fast lap of 51.948 seconds, marking his 51st career pole and sixth at Pocono.
- Kyle Larson will join Hamlin on the front row, narrowly missing pole by 0.055 seconds, with Daniel Suarez starting third.
- Championship leader Tyler Reddick, whose lead has shrunk from 129 to 51 points, will start 16th, while Christopher Bell, driving with a fractured wrist, will start 22nd.
- The qualifying session saw incidents including spins and wall impacts by Carson Hocevar and Bubba Wallace, both of whom will start from the rear of the field.
- Due to rain threats, the race start time has been moved up by two hours to just after 1 p.m. EST on Sunday.