RELATED: Full qualifying results
Following his Chase elimination at last week’s Phoenix race, Kevin Harvick bounced back to earn the Coors Light Pole Award at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a fastest lap of 177.637 mph. This is his second pole win of 2016 and first at the 1.5-mile track.
Team Penske‘s Brad Keselowski will line up second in his No. 2 Ford (177.538 mph).
Richard Childress Racing‘s Ryan Newman (177.387 mph), Joe Gibbs Racing‘s Denny Hamlin (177.194 mph) and Hendrick Motorsports‘ Chase Elliott (177.096 mph) completed the top five.
Championship 4 contenders and Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch (ninth) and Carl Edwards (10th) will line up on the same row. Joey Logano (176.638 mph) and Jimmie Johnson (176.269 mph) failed to advance to the third and final round of the session and will line up 13th and 14th, respectively.
Johnson’s No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports struggled throughout qualifying — despite posting the fifth-quickest speed during first practice — and almost failed to advance past the opening round, but managed thanks to a last-lap surge in the round’s waning seconds.
In his final race as a full-time Sprint Cup Series driver, Tony Stewart will start 11th after propelling his No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet to a quick lap of 174.978 mph.
The field returns to the track Saturday for a pair of practices at 10 a.m. ET (CNBC/NBC Sports App) and 1 p.m. ET (NBCSN/NBC Sports App) ahead of Sunday’s grand finale — the Ford EcoBoost 400 — at 2:30 p.m. ET (NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).