Qualifying Results

Ken Pettit's longtime crew chief Slim Horton was fired this week. The #8 Bob Marley Race-2-Win organization enters Pocono with two top-15 finishes on the year, struggling to find speed even when they cross the checkered flag. The Pettit-Horton duo initiated in 2019, finishing 11th or better in the standings every year but one. Car chief and longtime friend Scott Nowacki will fill in as intern. "He made an alarm clock that rolls away so you can't shut it off!" said Pettit, referring to Nowacki's his mechanical ingenuity. "We found it under the fridge. Slim smashed it with a mallet, smelting the metal to build one of our A-frames." In 231 starts together, 95 top-10's, one Championship (2021) and two victories at Darlington are the highlights. The 2019 Folds of Honor 500 at Atlanta and 2024 Reese's Cup 400 amassed their four career wins, with two Daytona 500 poles (2020 and 2025) as their magnum opus.

*Ken and Slim at the 2021 Halloween pep rally outside Fayetteville Pep Boys.

Last year, Ken Pettit came into the sixteenth race as the points leader! This year, he's 38th. Seven DNF's have been the plague, firing crew chief Slim Horton last night after a late-race Pocono mishap. Miraculously, the team has made the field every race without provisionals since Martinsville. He's the reigning Reese's Cup 400 Champion, hoping to recapture similar success and turn his season from "wrapper" to "candy bar". Jeremy Hebel earns his second career pole, with sophomore-mate Molemar Diggs praying for his first victory since the Rebel 400. He'll start on the outside.

Friday, June 20th, 4:00 ET