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The NASCAR Cup Series is set for its annual race at Sonoma Raceway, which is the 16th and final points race prior to the switch from Fox (and Fox Sports 1) to NBC (and USA Network) for the rest of the 36-race 2024 season.
Sundays 110-lap race is scheduled to take place at a 12-turn, 1.99-mile (3.203-kilometer) natural terrain road course that has been repaved since NASCAR’s most recent trip to Sonoma, California last June.
With the Toyota/Save Mart 350 being a road course race, traditional road course qualifying is set to be used to set the starting lineup. The formula used to determine the qualifying order, which is detailed here, is simply used to determine which drivers are in each of the two qualifying groups.
Drivers are not limited to a single qualifying lap; each group is timed. The fastest five drivers in each group advance to the second round shootout for the pole position.
The drivers who don’t advance out of the first group are set to line up on the outside row while the drivers who don’t advance out of the second group are set to line up on the inside row.
