Martin Truex Jr. qualifies first at Pocono

It's Martin Truex Jr.'s second pole of the season (Getty). — It’s Martin Truex Jr.’s second pole of the season (Getty).

Martin Truex Jr. posted the fastest speed of the third round of qualifying at Pocono on Friday to grab the top starting position for Sunday’s race.

His lap of 179.244 MPH beat out Carl Edwards’ lap of 178.873 MPH as Edwards will start second. Denny Hamlin, another driver from Joe Gibbs Racing (Truex’s Furniture Row Racing has a technical alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing) was fourth. Paul Menard qualified third and Ryan Newman was fifth.

Truex won the first race at Pocono last year, his only win of 2015 before making it to the final round of the Chase. Friday’s pole is also his third of the season; he qualified first at Kansas at Charlotte, where he dominated and won in May.

1. Martin Truex Jr.
2. Carl Edwards
3. Paul Menard
4. Denny Hamlin
5. Ryan Newman
6. Tony Stewart
7. Brad Keselowski
8. Chase Elliott
9. Matt Kenseth
10. Joey Logano
11. Kyle Larson
12. Austin Dillon
13. AJ Allmendinger
14. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
15. Kurt Busch
16. Kyle Busch
17. Kevin Harvick
18. Ryan Blaney
19. Jamie McMurray
20. Casey Mears
21. Jimmie Johnson
22. Chris Buescher
23. Kasey Kahne
24. Jeff Gordon
25. Greg Biffle
26. Danica Patrick
27. Aric Almirola
28. Clint Bowyer
29. Michael McDowell
30. Regan Smith
31. Trevor Bayne
32. Landon Cassia
33. David Ragan
34. Matt DiBenedetto
35. Brian Scott
36. Cole Whitt
37. Jeb Burton
38. Josh Wise
39. Michael Annett
40. Reed Sorenson