Lineup: Cup Series qualifying washed away in Charlotte; Tyler Reddick on Coca-Cola 600 pole

Persistent rain washed away NASCAR Cup Series qualifying Saturday afternoon, placing points leader Tyler Reddick on the pole position for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Reddick’s No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota will start first when the green flag falls on stock-car racing’s longest event on Sunday (6 p.m. ET, Prime Video, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). He will be flanked on the front row by fellow Toyota driver Ty Gibbs, who was second in the inclement weather lineup in Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 54.

RELATED: Weekend schedule

Wet weather has stymied the weekend schedule at the 1.5-mile North Carolina track, with rain disrupting on-track activity for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and Craftsman Truck Series and causing all three series to set their lineups according to the NASCAR Rule Book.

The rest of the top five (in order): Trackhouse Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen, Spire Motorsports’ Michael McDowell and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chase Briscoe.

O’Reilly Series regular Austin Hill will start 13th Sunday in the No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, taking the place of Kyle Busch, the two-time Cup Series champion who died Thursday. Hill will be making his third Cup Series start of the season in Sunday’s 600-miler.

Stenhouse sets pace in Cup Series practice

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. led the way in a 45-minute practice session Saturday afternoon, putting his No. 47 Hyak Motorsports Chevrolet first on the leaderboard at 185.765 mph.

Stenhouse’s best lap was 0.106 seconds faster than Carson Hocevar’s, clocking at 185.090 mph in the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevy. Michael McDowell was third-fastest in another Spire Chevy at 184.932. McDowell was also tops in the consecutive 10-lap averages category.

MORE: Cup Series practice results

Austin Dillon found trouble nearly midway through the session after the left-rear tire on his No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet went down on the backstretch. The only other incident came when rookie Corey Heim’s No. 67 23XI Racing Toyota scraped the outside retaining wall in Turn 1.

Austin Hill was 28th on the speed charts in the No. 33 Chevrolet. Katherine Legge, who will attempt “The Double” with competition in both the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday, was 38th-fastest in the 39-car field in the Live Fast Motorsports No. 78 Chevrolet.