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NASCAR Cup Dover qualifying results: Buescher on pole
Chris Buescher secured a surprise pole position in Saturday's NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session at Dover Motor Speedway.
Edited: Apr 30, 2022, 5:37 PM
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This will be Buescher's first pole, coming in his 233rd NCS start. RFK Racing hasn't started a race from P1 since Talladega in May, 2017.
Denny Hamlin start from the outside of the front row, leading Toyota. Kyle Larson was the top Chevrolet driver in third.
Unlike the practice that preceded it, there were no incidents during either round of qualifying.
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Round 2 - Top 10 Starters
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 17 
Chris Buescher Ford 2 22.479 160.149 2 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 2 22.536 0.057 0.057 159.744 3 5 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 2 22.552 0.073 0.016 159.631 4 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 2 22.609 0.130 0.057 159.229 5 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 2 22.617 0.138 0.008 159.172 6 48 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 2 22.626 0.147 0.009 159.109 7 1 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 2 22.643 0.164 0.017 158.990 8 99 
Daniel Suarez Chevrolet 2 22.708 0.229 0.065 158.534 9 23 Bubba Wallace Toyota 2 22.810 0.331 0.102 157.826 10 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 2 22.859 0.380 0.049 157.487
Round 1 Group A
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 1 Ross Chastain Chevrolet 1 22.423 160.549 2 12 Ryan Blaney Ford 1 22.453 0.030 0.030 160.335 3 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota 2 22.495 0.072 0.042 160.036 4 17 Chris Buescher Ford 2 22.515 0.092 0.020 159.893 5 23 Bubba Wallace Toyota 2 22.544 0.121 0.029 159.688 6 4 Kevin Harvick Ford 2 22.547 0.124 0.003 159.666 7 2 Austin Cindric Ford 2 22.592 0.169 0.045 159.348 8 31 Justin Haley Chevrolet 2 22.631 0.208 0.039 159.074 9 19 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota 2 22.682 0.259 0.051 158.716 10 16 A.J. Allmendinger Chevrolet 2 22.684 0.261 0.002 158.702 11 22 Joey Logano Ford 2 22.734 0.311 0.050 158.353 12 3 Austin Dillon Chevrolet 2 22.773 0.350 0.039 158.082 13 10 Aric Almirola Ford 2 22.858 0.435 0.085 157.494 14 51 Cody Ware Ford 2 22.895 0.472 0.037 157.240 15 41 Cole Custer Ford 2 23.018 0.595 0.123 156.399 16 78 B.J. McLeod Ford 2 23.803 1.380 0.785 151.241 17 77 Josh Bilicki Chevrolet 18 38 Todd Gilliland Ford
Round 1 Group B
Cla # Driver Manufacturer Laps Time Gap Interval Mph 1 9 Chase Elliott Chevrolet 1 22.467 160.235 2 5 Kyle Larson Chevrolet 1 22.495 0.028 0.028 160.036 3 48 Alex Bowman Chevrolet 1 22.504 0.037 0.009 159.972 4 18 Kyle Busch Toyota 1 22.585 0.118 0.081 159.398 5 99 Daniel Suarez Chevrolet 1 22.608 0.141 0.023 159.236 6 15 Ryan Preece Ford 2 22.620 0.153 0.012 159.151 7 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Chevrolet 2 22.640 0.173 0.020 159.011 8 45 Kurt Busch Toyota 2 22.645 0.178 0.005 158.975 9 20 Christopher Bell Toyota 2 22.647 0.180 0.002 158.961 10 6 Brad Keselowski Ford 2 22.695 0.228 0.048 158.625 11 7 Corey Lajoie Chevrolet 2 22.705 0.238 0.010 158.555 12 14 Chase Briscoe Ford 2 22.741 0.274 0.036 158.304 13 43 Erik Jones Chevrolet 2 22.791 0.324 0.050 157.957 14 8 Tyler Reddick Chevrolet 2 22.833 0.366 0.042 157.667 15 34 Michael McDowell Ford 1 22.905 0.438 0.072 157.171 16 42 Ty Dillon Chevrolet 2 23.190 0.723 0.285 155.239 17 21 Harrison Burton Ford 18 24 William Byron Chevrolet
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