Guess who? Kyle Busch wins pole at Pocono
Kyle Busch is now winning things he isn’t sure he’s going to win.
Busch, who has won four of the last five Sprint Cup Series races, posted the fastest lap (178.416 MPH) in the third round of Friday’s qualifying session at Pocono and will start first for Sunday’s race.
“I told you that I had a fast car, I just wasn’t sure we could get the balance of it right,” Busch said. “There right at the end, that last run, was the best it’s been all day.”
Busch unseated Joey Logano for the top spot in qualifying and survived a fast lap by Kevin Harvick, the only other driver to post a lap over 178 MPH. Logano starts third while Austin Dillon starts fourth and Tony Stewart starts fifth.
Harvick posted the fastest lap of the second round while Stewart was fastest in the first round.
Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon round out the top 10.
If Kyle Busch wins at Pocono and gets his fifth win in six races, it’d be his first win at the 2.5-mile triangle. Busch has eight top-10 finishes in 21 starts at the track. He won the pole there in 2010 and finished second to teammate Denny Hamlin.
43 drivers attempted to qualify Friday so no driver missed the race.
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