Christian Eckes Wins Pole for Next Era Energy 250 at Daytona

Written by Adrian Beecher

Daytona, FL – 18-year-old Christian Eckes will start on the pole for Fridays NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona International Speedway.  After running a 49.287-second lap in the final round of qualifying for his first Truck Pole at Daytona, however, he won the pole last week in the ARCA race and finished that one 4th.

Starting in 2nd on the front row is David Gilliland who was 0.013-seconds slower than Eckes, and his son Todd Gilliland will start in 3rd after running a 49.526-second lap.

 

Here is the full starting lineup of the NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

RNK DRIVER SPEED TIME BEHIND
1 #51 Christian Eckes 182.604 49.287 Pole Winner
2 #17 David Gilliland 182.556 49.3 0.013
3 #4 Todd Gilliland 181.723 49.526 0.239
4 #18 Harrison Burton 181.965 49.46 0.173
5 #98 Grant Enfinger 181.349 49.628 0.341
6 #2 Sheldon Creed 181.221 49.663 0.376
7 #52 Stewart Friesen 180.861 49.762 0.475
8 #24 Brett Moffitt 180.868 49.76 0.473
9 #68 Clay Greenfield 180.676 49.813 0.526
10 #16 Austin Hill 181.05 49.71 0.423
11 #54 Natalie Decker 180.763 49.789 0.502
12 #22 Austin Wayne Self 180.119 49.967 0.68
13 #12 Gus Dean 180.007 49.998 0.711
14 #20 Spencer Boyd 180.004 49.999 0.712
15 #88 Matt Crafton 179.968 50.009 0.722
16 #47 Chris Fontaine 179.666 50.093 0.806
17 #13 Johnny Sauter 179.48 50.145 0.858
18 #02 Tyler Dippel 179.09 50.254 0.967
19 #87 Joe Nemechek 178.916 50.303 1.016
20 #42 Robby Lyons 178.774 50.343 1.056
21 #28 Bryan Dauzat 178.756 50.348 1.061
22 #99 Ben Rhodes 178.703 50.363 1.076
23 #45 Ross Chastain 178.699 50.364 1.077
24 #27 Myatt Snider 178.674 50.371 1.084
25 #04 Cory Roper 178.571 50.4 1.113
26 #30 Brennan Poole 178.281 50.482 1.195
27 #3 Jordan Anderson 178.243 50.493 1.206
28 #44 Timothy Peters 177.982 50.567 1.28
29 #63 Bobby Gerhart 177.49 50.707 1.42
30 #8 Angela Ruch 177.315 50.757 1.47
31 #49 Ray Ciccarelli 173.461 51.885 2.598
32 #33 Josh Reaume 171.71 52.414 3.12

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