Joey Logano wins pole for Richmond

Defending Richmond winner Joey Logano will start first for Saturday night's race.

Logano outpaced former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin for the top starting spot, his third pole position of the season. He's previously started first at Atlanta and Martinsville.

Hamlin has won twice at Richmond, though his last win at the track came in 2009 when he led 299 laps.

Kurt Busch will start third while AJ Allmendinger starts fourth and Kevin Harvick will start fifth.

Logano won last year's race after an awesome four-car battle for the win. Because why not, here it is again. It doesn't get old.

Hendrick Motorsports cars didn't have a very good qualifying session. While Jeff Gordon made it to the final round and will start 11th, he was the only full-time HMS car to even make it to the second round.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start 26th while Jimmie Johnson starts 36th and Kasey Kahne will start 40th. Kahne said he wondered if his car had a bad set of tires while Johnson's reaction to qualifying was summed up thusly:

Chase Elliott, making his second start for the team, will start 16th.

The two cars missing the race were Jeb Burton and Brendan Gaughan.

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