Updated:6/30 8:50 a.m. ET
JOLIET, Ill. – Austin Dillon won the pole for Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Camping World 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.
Dillon’s car passed tech on Sunday morning.
Dillon earned his sixth career pole, and third of the season, after posting a fast lap of 30.636 seconds, 176.263 mph in the No. 3 Chevrolet.
“Yeah, you don’t usually see a guy that was 21st and 25th in both practice sessions jump up to the pole but I actually felt really confident in our car in the second practice,” Dillon said. “We just, when we put on our stickers we had our car too low. We were hitting the track. So our speed wasn’t there because of that. You can’t see that. I felt confident that our car was good and driving good. We just needed to get off the track and we did and we went really fast. It was a good lap.”
Kevin Harvick went out early in the qualifying order and was able to lock down the second fastest lap at 30.666, 176.091 mph in the No. 4 Ford. His car also passed tech.
“I feel good about our car,” Harvick said. “We had two good practices today and this is the same car we had at Kansas and ran really well there, we just had some bum luck at the end of the race with that tear-off getting on the front of the car and having to pit. This is an interesting race track because you can run from the bottom to the top and our car was very versatile. It goes through the bumps well. I felt good about it today, it just has to transfer to tomorrow.”
Daniel Hemric, Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch rounded out the top five in qualifying.
The rest of the starting lineup with become official following all-cars pass through pre-race inspection.
Check back with MRN.com for the official lineup.
