Sammy Smith wins the first 2025 xfinity pole in Las Vegas

Sammy Smith made his way to his first position of the pole Nascar Xfinity Series of the 2025 season for Liuna! In Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday, March 14.

The initial alignment of the event was determined through a standard practice and a qualification procedure. The field was divided into two 25 -minute practice sessions. Next, the field united strength to participate in a single round qualification session (confusion). The groups and the qualification order were determined by metrics that included 70% depending on the end of the previous race by the owner and 30% depending on the classification of points of the owner, with the competitors with the best score located in the second group.

XFINITY series Pole winner

Smith was the third competitor faster during the practice session on Friday. He followed him with a winning turn of posts at 183,455 mph at 29,435 seconds during the qualification at his entrance as Chevrolet Camaro Chevrolet Chevrolet Chevrolet Chevrolet Chevrolet, claiming the starting place. He beat his teammate, Carson Kvapil, for 0.067 seconds.

The twice champion of the Arca Menards East and the two -time winner of the Johnston Xfinity series, Iowa, achieved his third race pole in the division and the first since November 2023 in Martinsville Speedway. Smith, which is in its second full time season in the series, driving the Chevrolet entrance No. 8 For JR Motorsports, he is currently in fifth in the driver’s classification while he strives to compete for his first victory of the year for Saturday’s main event in Sin City.

“Slope to all these pilot types,” Smith said on the CW network. “(Chief of the crew) Philip (Belt) and all (No. 8) boys did a very good job. We have really tried to focus on qualifying these last races just to try to help our initial position. Tomorrow’s goal, he continued, “is to maintain (the car) in front and, hopefully, we can end here.”

Smith will share the front row with Carson Kvapil, the last of which registered its best qualification turn to 183.038 MPH in 29,502 seconds. Although it was a less position than claiming his first pole Xfinity, Kvapil achieved his first starting point of the front row for an Xfinity event and emerged as the highest xfinity rookie for the main event.

Qualifying

The rookie Connor Zilisch, who is also a teammate JR Motorsports by Sammy Smith and Carson Kvapil, will begin in third place with a qualifying return to 182,655 MPH in 29,564 seconds. Previously, Zilisch was the fastest competitor during the event’s practice session. The rookie Taylor Gray and Sam Mayer will begin among the top five, respectively.

Justin Allgaier, the current Xfinity series champion and a teammate from JR Motorsports to Smith, Kvapil and Zilisch, will start in sixth place. Jesse Love, rookie William Sawalich, rookie Nick Sánchez and Jeb Burton completed the best initial places.

Aric Almirola, the winner of the XFINITY event last weekend in Phoenix Raceway, will align in 11th place and share the sixth row with Parker Retzlaff.

In addition, the following names that included Jeremy Clements, Austin Hill, Brandon Jones, rookie Christian Eckes, Harrison Burton, Matt Dibenedetto, Ryan Sieg, Anthony Alfredo, Sheldon Creed, Josh Williams, the Rookie Dean Thompson and Austin Green will begin 17, 18, 19, 19, 22nd, 22nd, 22nd, 22nd, 22nd, will begin on 13, 14, 17, 18, 19º, 20 24, 28 and 36, respectively.

Initial alignment

With 38 competitors competing for 38 initial points, all the competitors entered made the main event.

Qualification position, better speed, better time:

1. Sammy Smith, 183,455 mph, 29,435 seconds

2. Carson Kvapil, 183,038 mph, 29,502 seconds

3. Connor Zilisch, 182,655 mph, 29,564 seconds

4. Taylor Gray, 182,482 mph, 29,592 seconds

5. Sam Mayer, 182,223 mph, 29,634 seconds

6. Justin Allgaier, 182,174 mph, 29,642 seconds

7. Jesse Love, 182,156 mph, 29,645 seconds

8. William Sawalich, 182,014 mph, 29,668 seconds

9. Nick Sánchez, 181,977 mph, 29,674 seconds

10. Jeb Burton, 181,892 mph, 29,688 seconds

11. Aric Almirola, 181,892 mph, 29,688 seconds

12. Parker Retzlaff, 181,671 mph, 29,724 seconds

13. Jeremy Clements, 181,165 mph, 29,807 seconds

14. Austin Hill, 181,074 mph, 29,822 seconds

15. Brandon Jones, 181.008 mph, 29,833 seconds

16. Daniel Dye, 179,623 mph, 30,063 seconds

17. Christian Eckes, 179,551 mph, 30,075 seconds

18. Harrison Burton, 179,438 mph, 30,094 seconds

19. Matt Dibenedetto, 179,206 mph, 30,133 seconds

20. Ryan Sieg, 178,802 mph, 30,201 seconds

21. Kyle Sieg, 178,436 mph, 30,263 seconds

22. Anthony Alfredo, 178,394 mph, 30,270 seconds

23. Sheldon Creed, 178,159 mph, 30,310 seconds

24. Josh Williams, 177,842 mph, 30,364 seconds

25. Patrick Emerling, 177,561 mph, 30,412 seconds

26. Kris Wright, 177,421 mph, 30,436 seconds

27. Blaine Perkins, 176,927 mph, 30,521 seconds

28. Dean Thompson, 176,603 mph, 30,577 seconds

29. Leland Honeyman, 176,557 mph, 30,585 seconds

30. Brennan Poole, 175,901 mph. 30,699 seconds

31. Mason Massey, 174,667 mph, 30,916 seconds

32. Dawson Cram, 173,527 mph, 31,119 seconds

33. Garrett Smithley, 173,171 mph, 31,183 seconds

34. Josh Bilicki, 173,088 mph, 31,198 seconds

35. Ryan Ellis, 172,590 mph, 31,288 seconds

36. Austin Green, 172.155 mph, 31,367 seconds

37. Joey Gase, 170,111 mph, 31,744 seconds

38. Greg van Alst, 168,161 mph, 32,112 seconds

2025 La Liuna! In Las Vegas Motor Speedway will occur on Saturday, March 15 and the air at 4:30 pm et on the CW network.