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Kyle Busch scooted to the Coors Light Pole Award in Saturday morning qualifying for the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Busch, driving the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota, turned a fast lap of 185.499 mph in the final qualifying round on the 1.54-mile track. The pole position was Busch's first of the season, fifth at Atlanta and 49th of his career on the XFINITY tour.
Erik Jones' No. 20 Toyota from the Gibbs stables will start second in Saturday's Heads Up Georgia 250 (1:30 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1, PRN, SiriusXM) after posting a lap at 185.078 mph. Daniel Suarez logged a 185.022-mph lap to complete a 1-2-3 JGR sweep in the starting lineup for the series' second race of the season.
Kyle Larson (184.689 mph) and Brennan Poole (183.333 mph), both in Chevrolets for HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi, rounded out the top five.
Sprint Cup regular Kevin Harvick, winner of the last three XFINITY races at Atlanta, qualified 10th in the JR Motorsports No. 88 Chevrolet. Series points leader Elliott Sadler, Harvick's JRM teammate, will start 16th in the No. 1 Chevy.
Jones was tops in the 10-minute second round of qualifying, just ahead of JGR teammate Busch. Ty Dillon, celebrating his 24th birthday Saturday, was the final driver to make the third and final round of qualifying, just a tick ahead of 13th-fastest Blake Koch. He improved to wind up sixth in the starting lineup.
Busch edged Harvick for the top spot in the opening 20-minute qualifying round. Ryan Preece was the final driver to make the 24-car cut after Round 1, just nipping Harrison Rhodes to advance. Chris Cockrum's stalled car at the 13:04 mark brought the session's only stoppage.