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Harvick wins Kansas pole, SHR sweeps first two rows
Kevin Harvick is in best position possible to replicate his victory of a year ago at Kansas Speedway.
Jim Utter
Edited: May 12, 2019, 12:49 AM
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Harvick, still looking for his first win of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, won the pole for Saturday night’s Digital Ally 400 and will have his three Stewart-Haas Racing teammates lined up behind him.
Harvick’s average lap speed of 179.217 mph topped teammates Aric Almirola (178.725 mph), Clint Bowyer (178.324 mph) and Daniel Suarez (178.247 mph).
Chase Elliott ended up fifth, Martin Truex Jr. sixth, William Byron seventh, Kyle Larson eighth, Brad Keselowski ninth and Alex Bowman 10th.
The pole is the third of the season for Harvick and 28th of his career. It’s also his fourth at Kansas and second in the last three races.
“The mile-and-half race tracks have been quite a handful for us as we’ve gone through the beginning of the season,” said Harvick, who won this race a year ago. “From new cars to different engines and different headers and body builds and new sim files and aero maps – you name it, this is the next step.
“They’ve done a great job. Everybody knew we were a little bit behind but we saw some light at Texas. Everybody’s done a great job today. The car is fast and it drives great in traffic and hopefully when it gets dark tomorrow night, we’ll have another good night in Kansas.”
Harvick was also fastest on long runs in both of Friday’s practices, another good indication that he should be strong in the race as well.
“We decided to run two long runs, one at the end of the first session and the second at the end of the second session. We didn’t get in the middle of the big pack,” he said.
“I think when everybody is in the middle of the big pack, the car is going to push and slide on the restarts and then it will file out and you’ll have to go by them three or four at a time in front of you and then one at a time.
“I’m happy with how my car drove. It has a ton of speed and hopefully we can capitalize on it.”
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Cla # Driver Manufacturer Time Gap Mph 1 4 
Kevin Harvick Ford 30.131 179.217 2 10 Aric Almirola Ford 30.214 0.083 178.725 3 14 Clint Bowyer Ford 30.282 0.151 178.324 4 41 
Daniel Suarez Ford 30.295 0.164 178.247 5 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 30.345 0.214 177.954 6 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 30.447 0.316 177.357 7 24 William Byron Chevrolet 30.483 0.352 177.148 8 42 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 30.530 0.399 176.875 9 2 Brad Keselowski Ford 30.540 0.409 176.817 10 88 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 30.542 0.411 176.806 11 20 Erik Jones Toyota 30.577 0.446 176.603 12 43 Darrell Wallace Jr. Chevrolet 30.579 0.448 176.592 13 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 30.586 0.455 176.551 14 1 Kurt Busch Chevrolet 30.586 0.455 176.551 15 13 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 30.605 0.474 176.442 16 21 Paul Menard Ford 30.644 0.513 176.217 17 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 30.651 0.520 176.177 18 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet 30.673 0.542 176.051 19 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 30.676 0.545 176.033 20 22 Joey Logano Ford 30.729 0.598 175.730 21 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Ford 30.732 0.601 175.713 22 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 30.751 0.620 175.604 23 34 Michael McDowell Ford 30.818 0.687 175.222 24 32 Corey Lajoie Ford 30.820 0.689 175.211 25 00 Landon Cassill Chevrolet 30.823 0.692 175.194 26 8 Daniel Hemric Chevrolet 30.825 0.694 175.182 27 37 Chris Buescher Chevrolet 30.889 0.758 174.820 28 6 Ryan Newman Ford 30.893 0.762 174.797 29 95 Matt DiBenedetto Toyota 30.917 0.786 174.661 30 31 Tyler Reddick Chevrolet 30.932 0.801 174.576 31 47 Ryan Preece Chevrolet 30.938 0.807 174.543 32 52 Bayley Currey Ford 30.956 0.825 174.441 33 38 David Ragan Ford 30.992 0.861 174.239 34 77 Quin Houff Chevrolet 31.123 0.992 173.505 35 36 Matt Tifft Ford 31.192 1.061 173.121 36 15 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 31.242 1.111 172.844 37 51 Cody Ware Chevrolet 31.590 1.459 170.940 38 46 Joey Gase Toyota 32.027 1.896 168.608 39 66 Timmy Hill Toyota 34.485 4.354 156.590 40 27 Reed Sorenson Chevrolet
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