DARLINGTON, S.C. – John Hunter Nemechek will bring the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series field to the green flag for the fourth time in eight races this season during Friday’s Liftkits4less.com 200 at Darlington Raceway.
Nemechek, the driver of the No. 4 Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports, received the Cometic Gasket Pole Award for the 200-mile event courtesy of the highest metric score among the 40 trucks entered to compete.
Lap speed is weighted at 15 percent, previous race finish at 25 percent for the driver and owner results and owner points position at 35 percent to calculate the final metric score.
Nemechek earned the pole with a metric score of 3.5, factoring in his recent fifth-place finish at Kansas Speedway, the second-fastest lap from that event and his runner-up seeding in the owner point standings after seven of 22 races this season.
He’ll be joined on the front row by fellow Toyota driver Austin Hill, who tied Nemechek on metric score but lost out on the pole due to the tiebreaker of current owner points. Hill’s No. 16 Hattori Racing Enterprises Tundra is fourth in the owner standings, slotting him second on the Darlington grid.
Zane Smith and Ben Rhodes will start third and fourth, respectively, with Todd Gilliland completing the top five.
Sixth through 10th are Johnny Sauter, Stewart Friesen, Chandler Smith, Matt Crafton and Hailie Deegan, whose 10th-place grid spot marks her best starting position for a Truck Series race in her young career.
Rookie Corey Heim, making his Truck Series debut this weekend for Kyle Busch Motorsports, rolls off 13th in the No. 51 Toyota Tundra that won the most recent Truck Series race at Kansas with owner-driver Kyle Busch behind the wheel.
To view the full starting lineup and metric qualifying breakdown, click here.
Friday’s Liftkits4less.com 200 is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. ET start, with live coverage on FS1, the Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.