Joey Logano is set to start the Hollywood Casino 400, the third and final race of the round of 12 of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, from the pole position.
Team Penske’s Joey Logano took the pole position for the 32nd race of the 36-race 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Hollywood Casino 400, at Kansas Speedway. This race is the sixth of 10 races in the 2018 Cup Series playoffs, and it is the third and final race of the second of four rounds of the playoffs, the round of 12.
Logano took the pole position for the the 267-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Kansas Speedway oval in Kansas City, Kansas by recording a top lap time of 28.177 seconds (191.646 miles per hour) in his #22 Ford the third and final qualifying session for the race.
By taking this pole position, which is his first pole position of the season and the 20th of his Cup Series career for this race, Logano led a top five Ford sweep of the starting grid.
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Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Kevin Harvick and Aric Almirola qualified in second and third place in their #4 Ford and #10 Ford, respectively, while Team Penske teammates Ryan Blaney and Brad Keselowski qualified in fourth and fifth in their #12 Ford and #2 Ford, respectively.
The next four drivers on the starting grid are all set to be Toyota drivers. Specifically, they are all set to be Joe Gibbs Racing drivers.
Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Erik Jones, Kyle Busch, Daniel Suarez and Denny Hamlin qualified for the race in sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth place in their #20 Toyota, #18 Toyota, #19 Toyota and #11 Toyota, respectively.
Hendrick Motorsports’ Alex Bowman, who was the only Chevrolet driver to get into the third and final qualifying session for the race and thus the only Chevrolet driver to qualify in the top 12, qualified in 10th place in his #88 Chevrolet.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch and Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. are the other two drivers who made it into the third and final qualifying session for the race. They qualified in 11th and 12th place in their #41 Ford and #78 Toyota, respectively.
Of the drivers who qualified in the top 12 for this race, nine are drivers who are still eligible to win this season’s championship, as Jones, Suarez and Hamlin have been eliminated from championship contention. Of those nine drivers, only Almirola has clinched a berth in the round of 8, as he did so by winning this past Sunday’s round of 12 race at Talladega Superspeedway.
The three drivers who are still eligible to win this season’s championship but failed to qualify for this race in the top 12 are Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson. They qualified in 13th, 14th and 27th place in their #9 Chevrolet, #14 Ford and #42 Chevrolet, respectively.
Elliott is already locked into the third round of the playoffs, the round of 8, are a result of his victory in the opening round of 12 race at Dover International Speedway. Bowyer is currently above the round of 8 cut line while Larson is currently below it.
Here are the full qualifying results for the 2018 Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.
Qualifying Results
1st – Joey Logano
2nd – Kevin Harvick
3rd – Aric Almirola
4th – Ryan Blaney
5th – Brad Keselowski
6th – Erik Jones
7th – Kyle Busch
8th – Daniel Suarez
9th – Denny Hamlin
10th – Alex Bowman
11th – Kurt Busch
12th – Martin Truex Jr.
13th – Chase Elliott
14th – Clint Bowyer
15th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
16th – Ryan Newman
17th – William Byron
18th – Paul Menard
19th – Trevor Bayne
20th – Jamie McMurray
21st – Chris Buescher
22nd – Jimmie Johnson
23rd – Austin Dillon
24th – Michael McDowell
25th – A.J. Allmendinger
26th – Regan Smith
27th – Kyle Larson
28th – David Ragan
29th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
30th – Ty Dillon
31st – Matt DiBenedetto
32nd – Ross Chastain
33rd – Jeffrey Earnhardt
34th – Corey Lajoie
35th – Landon Cassill
36th – J.J. Yeley
37th – Kyle Weatherman
38th – B.J. McLeod
39th – Reed Sorenson
40th – Timmy Hill
Be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, October 21 for the live broadcast of the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway to see which six drivers will lock up the remaining six positions in the round of 8 of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.