Noah Gragson ready to ‘put on a show’ at Phoenix after P7 qualifying effort

Today Noah Gragson will start a season-high P7 after a stellar qualifying effort at Phoenix. The NASCAR Cup Series sophomore is ready for action. Could Gragson be onto something early this season?

Already, Gragson has two top-10 finishes. P6 last week at Las Vegas is the second-best finish ever in the Cup Series for Gragson. It is by far his best performance on a non-drafting track. So, it makes sense why he has a little bit of confidence right now.

Noah Gragson recorded a short video message for fans. Stewart-Haas Racing won this race two years ago with Chase Briscoe, who starts behind Gragson today. Gragson wants to “put on a show” for fans.

“Felt like we had a pretty good ServPro Ford Mustang Dark Horse,” Gragson said in the video. “It felt great out there way better than our practice speed yesterday I was a little concerned about it. To be able to come home in the top-10 in qualifying, we qualified 7th, highest-running Ford was really good. Really proud of everybody at Stewart-Haas especially everybody on the ServPro team, Drew Blickensderfer and the rest of the guys they’ve been working their guts out and we’ve made a lot of improvements from yesterday.

“So, got a top-10 starting position going to be really good on the long run tomorrow I hope. Based off practice yesterday, we were really happy with the long run and how the car faded throughout a tire cycle run, it felt really good. Appreciate all of your guys’ support and we’re going to put on a show at Phoenix, baby!”