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Ben Rhodes won the Twenty One Means Twenty One pole for the NASCAR XFINITY Series Road America 180 Fired up by Johnsonville on Saturday as rain washed out the qualifying session.
Rhodes, who was the 2014 K&N Pro Series East champion, landed on the front row for Saturday’s race (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM) based on his top speed in the first practice. Defending XFINITY series champion Chase Elliott will start alongside Rhodes on the front row for the 45-lap race on the 4.048-mile Wisconsin road course.
For Rhodes, a NASCAR Next product and the driver of the No. 88 Chevrolet for JR Motorsports, this was his first pole in a major NASCAR series. This will be Rhodes’ seventh race this season in the XFINITY Series. He finished 35th and 10th in this year’s previous road-course races at Watkins Glen and Mid-Ohio, respectively.
Ryan Blaney, Justin Marks and Brian Scott rounded out the top five in the starting lineup. Current series points leader Chris Buescher was sixth. And Boris Said, the highest-ranking Toyota driver, was seventh in what may be his last NASCAR race.
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