“Growing up and watching races in the stands, and then going through the summer shootout, and then coming back here for Xfinity, I always put a lot of pressure to run well here,” Byron said.

Taranto, who moonlights as a sim racer and has 20 career wins in iRacing, is the lead NASCAR writer for CBSSports.com.

Chase Briscoe became just the tenth driver to earn pole position for both the Daytona 500 and Coca-Cola 600 in the same year, besting Kyle Larson by 0.020s in NASCAR Cup Series qualifying.