In the first playoff race of the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season, Kyle Busch will start from the pole position at Chicagoland.
For the seventh race in 27 attempts thus far in the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season, Kyle Busch will start a race from the pole position.
He will do so for the Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois on Sunday afternoon, the first playoff race of the season.
Busch’s six poles in the regular season came at Dover, Pocono, Kentucky, Indianapolis, Pocono again and Watkins Glen. His lone win from the pole position this season came at the second Pocono race.
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Busch enters the playoffs seeded as the #3 driver behind only Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson, the two drivers who led all drivers with four wins each in the regular season. Busch trails Truex Jr. by 24 points, and he trails Larson by just four points.
A win by Busch or by any other playoff driver will lock that driver into the second round, the Round of 12, of the playoffs, which begins with the fourth race of the playoffs at Charlotte in three weeks.
Here are the full qualifying results for Sunday’s Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
- Kyle Busch, Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing
- Denny Hamlin, Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing
- Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, Furniture Row Racing
- Kevin Harvick, Ford, Stewart-Haas Racing
- Brad Keselowski, Ford, Team Penske
- Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing
- Joey Logano, Ford, Team Penske
- Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports
- Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing
- Matt Kenseth, Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing
- Clint Bowyer, Ford, Stewart-Haas Racing
- Ryan Blaney, Ford, Wood Brothers Racing
- Daniel Suarez, Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing
- Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, Roush-Fenway Racing
- Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing
- Kurt Busch, Ford, Stewart-Haas Racing
- Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, JTG-Daugherty Racing
- Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, Chip Ganassi Racing
- Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports
- Aric Almirola, Ford, Richard Petty Motorsports
- Danica Patrick, Ford, Stewart-Haas Racing
- Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, Germain Racing
- Erik Jones, Toyota, Furniture Row Racing
- Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, Hendrick Motorsports
- Trevor Bayne, Ford, Roush-Fenway Racing
- Landon Cassill, Ford, Front Row Motorsports
- Paul Menard, Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing
- A.J. Allmendinger, Chevrolet, JTG-Daugherty Racing
- Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, Leavine Family Racing
- David Ragan, Ford, Front Row Motorsports
- Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, Go Fas Racing
- Corey LaJoie, Toyota, BK Racing
- Reed Sorenson, Toyota, Premium Motorsports
- Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, TriStar Motorsports
- Gray Gaulding, Toyota, BK Racing
- Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, TMG-Circle Sport Racing
- Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, MBM Motorsports
- Ray Black Jr., Chevrolet, Rick Ware Racing
- Brett Moffitt, Toyota, BK Racing
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