DOVER, Del. — Chris Buescher earned his first career pole for Sunday afternoon’s DuraMAX Drydene 400 presented by RelaDyne at Dover Motor Speedway.
Buescher laid down a 22.479 to give Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing their first pole since Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at Talladega in 2017.
The driver of the No. 17 Ford topped the charts over Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin by 57-hundredths of a second.
“That’s just awesome right there,” Buescher said. “That was a good effort through practice, (we) unloaded in the first group, and found some speed. Brad (Keselowski) went out there and put down some really great laps, and came over, saw some things, relayed it, and everyone did a great job working on this thing, got our Fastenal Mustang on the front row, so that’s a heckuva start. Just good momentum, (I’m) proud to do it here in Dover, I love this place. It’s a ride, we are flying around here, so that’s more throttle time than I think we’ve ever had around Dover, that I have had, so just really neat. (I’m) proud of everybody, now we just got to keep it rolling.”
The two Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet’s of Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott followed, with the Team Penske Ford of Ryan Blaney rounding out the top five.Â