McDowell, whose first profession pole got here earlier this season at Atlanta Motor Speedway, was quickest in each rounds on Saturday, successful the pole with a mean lap velocity of 182.022 mph over fellow Ford driver Austin Cindric (181.739 mph).
In three superspeedway races this season, McDowell has began second, first and now second. He was concerned in a wreck within the season-opening Daytona 500 and completed eighth at Atlanta.
“I’m simply so pleased with everyone at Entrance Row Motorsports. It’s a complete crew effort,” mentioned McDowell, whose solely Cup win got here within the 2021 Daytona 500. “We bought the entrance row at Daytona and the pole at Atlanta. We simply bought that style of it like, ‘Hey, we will do that.’
“Lots of effort goes into it. The Mustang celebrated 60 years this week so it’s cool to have the ability to the pole for them. We simply bought to get a Mustang in Victory Lane tomorrow.
“There’s loads of good automobiles beginning up entrance with us, loads of teammates. Hopefully, we will do all of the issues we have to do and execute. We bought the velocity, now we have to put all of it collectively.”
McDowell’s Entrance Row Motorsports teammate, Todd Gilliland, ended up third quickest (181.401 mph), Kyle Busch was fourth and the highest Chevrolet and Austin Dillon fifth.
Finishing the highest 10 beginning lineup are Martin Truex Jr. (the highest Toyota), Joey Logano, Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell.
Spherical 1
McDowell led a formidable first spherical for Ford with a mean lap velocity of 181.567 mph.
Busch ended up second fast (180.782 mph) whereas McDowell’s teammate, Gilliland, was third (180.679 mph).
Ford drivers Cindric and Logano rounded out the highest 5.
Additionally advancing to the ultimate spherical have been Truex, Dillon, Bell, Buescher and Elliott, who grabbed the ultimate switch spot whereas the final automotive to qualify.
Previous to the beginning of the primary spherical, NASCAR introduced that the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Kyle Larson wouldn’t be allowed to take part in qualifying.
The crew was penalized for making an unapproved adjustment to the roof rails of the automotive whereas it was being pushed to the grid.
With out collaborating in qualifying, Larson will lose pit choice and in essence have to start out from the rear of Sunday’s race.
