Daytona 500 winner William Byron's strong season continued Saturday when he won the pole at Phoenix Raceway. Byron, the points leader entering Sunday's race, earned his 14th career pole with a lap of 133.

The mile-long intermediate track is early in the NASCAR season, and it provides a strong test for the Cup Series’ top drivers.

NASCAR Cup Series driver William Byron gets the pole position after Saturday’s qualifying session for Sunday's Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway.

William Byron describes his shock after knocking Joey Logano off the top spot and claiming the pole for Sunday's Cup Series race at Phoenix.

Daytona 500 winner William Byron climbed out of his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on Phoenix Raceway pit road with a huge smile after claiming his first pole position in nearly a year on Saturday -- and his was last car to turn a qualifying lap.

Katherine Legge (28.060 sec.) is slated to make her NASCAR Cup Series debut with Live Fast Motorsports. The four-time IMSA race winner will become the first internationally born woman to race in Cup since Christine Beckers and Lella Lombardi in the 1977 July Daytona race.