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Carl Edwards wins pole at New Hampshire for third time in four races
Carl Edwards and his team have discovered the secret to qualifying well at New Hampshire.
Edwards will start Sunday’s race at the 1-mile track on the pole for the third time in four races after posting the fastest lap in the third round of Friday’s qualifying session. Edwards swept the pole positions in 2015 at New Hampshire and finished fifth and seventh in those two races.
His fast lap beat out last week’s winner Martin Truex Jr., who qualified second. Counting Truex, whose team has an alliance with Edwards’ Joe Gibbs Racing, JGR-equipped Toyotas all qualified in the top 12. Denny Hamlin will start fifth, Matt Kenseth eighth and Kyle Busch 12th.
It’s the sixth pole of Edwards’ 2016 season. It doubles his previous career record of three poles in a season (set three different times).
10 of the 16 Chase drivers made it to the final round and 14 advanced to the second round of qualifying. The two Chase drivers that didn’t get out of the first round were Austin Dillon and Chris Buescher. Dillon crashed his primary car in qualifying and was forced to qualify with a backup car.
1. Carl Edwards (Chase)
2. Martin Truex Jr. (Chase)
3. Ryan Newman
4. Jimmie Johnson (Chase)
5. Denny Hamlin (Chase)
6. Kyle Larson (Chase)
7. Jamie McMurray (Chase)
8. Matt Kenseth (Chase)
9. Kasey Kahne
10. Chase Elliott (Chase)
11. Brad Keselowski (Chase)
12. Kyle Busch (Chase)
13. Kurt Busch (Chase)
14. Paul Menard
15. Joey Logano (Chase)
16. Ryan Blaney
17. AJ Allmendinger
18. Alex Bowman
19. Kevin Harvick (Chase)
20. Michael McDowell
21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
22. Tony Stewart (Chase)
23. David Ragan
24. Danica Patrick
25. Brian Scott
26. Aric Almirola
27. Trevor Bayne
28. Chris Buescher (Chase)
29. Austin Dillon (Chase)
30. Regan Smith
31. Casey Mears
32. Greg Biffle
33. Matt DiBenedetto
34. Landon Cassill
35. Michael Annett
36. Cole Whitt
37. Clint Bowyer
38. Reed Sorenson
39. Josh Wise
40. Jeffrey Earnhardt
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