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Grant Enfinger earns first career pole at Daytona

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Grant Enfinger earned his first career pole during the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Keystone Light Pole qualifying after acclerating his No. 33 GMS Racing Chevrolet to a quickest lap of 180.752 mph during the session's final minutes. 

 

Enfinger's GMS Racing teammate Johnny Sauter was second-fastest as he propelled his No. 21 around the 2.5-mile track at 180.086 mph. 

 

Third-fastest during the session, which was two-rounds in single-truck qualifying, was the No. 17 of veteran Timothy Peters (179.691 mph).

 

The No. 2 Ford of Austin Theriault (179.158 mph) and the No. 51 Toyota of Daniel Suarez (179.108 mph) were fourth and fifth respectively. 

 

Two-time series champ Matt Crafton soared around DIS, clocking in at 178.948 mph in the No. 88; which was good enough for a sixth-place result.

 

The 11 drivers who failed to qualify for the field in their trucks were: Korbin Forrister, Ryan Reed, Clay Greenfield, Austin Hill, Norm Benning, Carlos Contreras, Reed Sorenson, Jennifer Jo Cobb, Ryan Ellis, David Levine and Mike Harmon.

 

The Truck Series starts off the three-day race weekend at 7:30 p.m. ET for the NextEra Energy Resources 250 (100 laps, 250 miles with coverage on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.