NASCAR Cup Series: Austin Dillon takes pole for 2019 Camping World 400
By Asher Fair
Austin Dillon took his series-high third pole position of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season for the Camping World 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon tied Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron atop the pole positions list through the first 17 races of the 36-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season by taking the pole position for the season’s 17th race, the Camping World 400, at Chicagoland Speedway.
Dillon took the pole position for this 267-lap race, which is his third pole position of the season, around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Chicagoland Speedway oval in Joliet, Illinois in his #3 Chevrolet by recording a lap time of 30.636 seconds (176.263 miles per hour) in the single-car qualifying session for this race.
Dillon also took the pole positions for the races at Auto Club Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway earlier this season.
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Harvick was the highest qualifying Ford driver for this race. He is set to start in second place alongside Dillon on the front row in his #4 Ford after recording a lap time of 30.666 seconds (176.091 miles per hour), which was just 0.030 seconds (0.172 miles per hour) slower than that of Dillon.
Richard Childress Racing took two of the three positions on the starting grid for this race, as rookie Daniel Hemric qualified in third place in his #8 Chevrolet. Hendrick Motorsports’ Jimmie Johnson and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kurt Busch qualified in fourth and fifth in their #48 Chevrolet and #1 Chevrolet, respectively, giving Chevrolet four of the top five positions.
Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer, Front Row Motorsports’ Michael McDowell and Hendrick Motorsports’ Alex Bowman are set to round out the top eight on the starting grid for this race after qualifying in sixth, seventh and eighth place in their #14 Ford, #34 Ford and #88 Chevrolet, respectively.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin was the highest qualifying Toyota driver for this race. He qualified in ninth place in his #11 Toyota. Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney rounded out the top 10 by qualifying in 10th in his #12 Ford. The top 32 of the 38 drivers who qualified for this race were separated by within 0.877 seconds in qualifying.
Here are the full qualifying results for the 2019 Camping World 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
Qualifying Results
1st – Austin Dillon
2nd – Kevin Harvick
3rd – Daniel Hemric
4th – Jimmie Johnson
5th – Kurt Busch
6th – Clint Bowyer
7th – Michael McDowell
8th – Alex Bowman
9th – Denny Hamlin
10th – Ryan Blaney
11th – William Byron
12th – Brad Keselowski
13th – Chase Elliott
14th – Kyle Larson
15th – Aric Almirola
16th – Ryan Newman
17th – Kyle Busch
18th – Martin Truex Jr.
19th – Joey Logano
20th – Ty Dillon
21st – Erik Jones
22nd – Matt Tifft
23rd – Ryan Preece
24th – David Ragan
25th – Paul Menard
26th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
27th – Darrell Wallace Jr.
28th – Chris Buescher
29th – Daniel Suarez
30th – Matt DiBenedetto
31st – Corey LaJoie
32nd – Ross Chastain
33rd – Bayley Currey
34th – Landon Cassill
35th – B.J. McLeod
36th – Quin Houff
37th – Josh Bilicki
38th – Reed Sorenson
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NBC Sports Network is set to broadcast the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season’s 17th race, the Camping World 400, live from Chicagoland Speedway beginning tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 p.m. ET.