#17-Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Coors Light pole for the GEICO 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway with speed of 191.547mph for his 1st pole of 2017 and 2nd of his career. There have been seven different pole winners in 2017 after 10 races. Stenhouse’s other pole was at Atlanta in September 2013.
#88-Earnhardt Jr. will start 2nd followed by #2-Keselowski, #20-Kenseth, #6-Bayne, #4-Harvick, #19-Suarez, #24-Elliott, #27-Menard, #18-Busch, #11-Hamlin and #22-Logano.
#17-Stenhouse Jr. was fastest in the first round with a speed of 190.833mph, will start from the pole
#14-Bowyer, fastest in Fridays one practice will start 17th. 2016 Champ, #48-Johnson will start 30th
Driver(s) who will miss the race: #96-Kennington
See round-by-round qualifying results on the Talladega qualifying results page (pdf) and the complete starting lineup on the Talladega Starting Lineup page (pdf).
