The Staff Penske Ford driver posted a mean lap pace of 134.389mph to edge his team-mate Ryan Blaney (134.373 mph) for the highest spot in Sunday’s title race.
Logano’s fourth pole of the 2022 season will give him the sting as he seeks to beat Chase Elliott (Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet), Christopher Bell (Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota) and Ross Chastain (Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet) to the driving force’s title, with the best finisher amongst them within the race declared the champion.
Elliott will begin fifth, Bell 17th and Chastain 25th. Kyle Larson, whose #5 Hendrick Motorsports staff can nonetheless win the proprietor’s title, will line up fourth.
“I assumed I over-cooked it a bit of bit within the entry to (Flip) 1, which I did the primary time,” mentioned Logano, who had lapped second-fastest in Group qualifying behind Chase Briscoe.
“I over-compensated a bit of bit for that and I additionally over-compensated in (Flip) three, too, the place I struggled the primary time.
“I want I may do it once more however hey. General, it doesn’t matter, we’re the place we must be.
“Good place to start out, higher place to complete.”
As the best qualifier among the many Championship four drivers, Logano’s #22 Penske staff may even obtain the primary decide of pit stalls for Sunday’s race.
“We’ve been making ready for a number of weeks and qualifying was one thing we talked about quite a bit and likewise the race,” he mentioned.
Pole sitter Joey Logano, Staff Penske, Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang
Picture by: Nigel Kinrade / NKP / Motorsport Images
Finishing the top-10 lineup are Briscoe’s Stewart-Haas Ford in third, Larson, Elliott, Harrison Burton, Kevin Harvick, Cole Custer, William Byron and Ty Gibbs.
Xfinity Sequence title chaser Gibbs – standing in for Kurt Busch at 23XI Racing, led the way in which among the many first group with a mean pace of 134.600 mph. Harvick was second-fastest (134.484 mph) and Blaney was third (134.188 mph). Additionally advancing to Spherical 2 had been Elliott and Blaney.
Amongst those that didn’t make the ultimate spherical had been Championship four contender Chastain, his Trackhouse Racing team-mate Daniel Suarez, and JGR drivers Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch – the latter in his final race assembly for the staff earlier than becoming a member of Richard Childress Racing for 2022.
“I simply could not decide to the throttle,” Chastain mentioned.
“Coming to the inexperienced and in the course of the lap it was simply too free, which is good thing (for the race) nevertheless it sucks now.”
Briscoe went out early within the second group and posted the highest common pace (135.252 mph), which ended up because the quickest lap of the day.
Logano ended up second-fastest (135.095 mph) and Custer was third (134.399 mph).
Additionally shifting on to the second spherical of qualifying had been Byron and Larson.
Amongst those that didn’t advance had been Championship four contender Bell, Tyler Reddick and Martin Truex Jr.
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