LEBANON (Sept. 14, 2024) — With less than sixty minutes of track practice at Nashville Superspeedway, Santino Ferrucci posted his second-best qualifying run of the year in the No. 14 Sexton Properties Chevrolet.

Ferrucci will start fifth in tomorrow’s race on the 1.33-mile banked oval after posting a two-lap run of 200.497mph. Ferrucci’s best run of the year (and his career) came three weeks ago in Portland, Ore. when he won the NTT P1 Award.

“Solid qualifying in the Sexton Properties Chevy,” said Ferrucci, who signed a contract this week to continue driving for AJ Foyt Racing. “Pretty awesome to start fifth and slide the top five already — we’ve been on a roll! I think our keeping the momentum going is just huge. Obviously, we were disappointed with the qualifying results in Milwaukee. We kind of knew what we did wrong, so to improve on that, come here and end up where we did was pretty awesome — and there’s still a little bit more left in it. So we’ll see how we do in the final practice and in the race.”

Ferrucci is coming off a pair of top-four finishes in the Hy-Vee doubleheader at the Milwaukee Mile where he qualified 19th in the first race and 12th in the second one over the Labor Day weekend.

Ferrucci was pumped about his most recent run, adding, “”It was a great run, I had to crack the throttle one time, which I was a little annoyed about, but more for precautions than anything else. We had a really good run going and we didn’t want to ruin it by hitting the wall.”