Austin Dillon has the pole position for Sunday’s Auto Club 400 from the appropriately named Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., the fifth race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
NASCAR Fontana 2016: Lineup, starting grid for Auto Club 400
Dillon enters Sunday eighth in points, with three top-10 finishes in 2016, including a fifth-place finish in Las Vegas on March 6. Dillon won the pole in Fontana on Friday with a qualifying speed of 188.482 mph, still looking for his first career victory.
“We’ve got fast cars this year and I’m proud of our guys, they just keep working hard,” Dillon said Friday. “Hopefully, we can turn this into something.”
Kevin Harvick, who won last week in Phoenix, will also start from the first row, in second position for Sunday’s race. He won in Fontana in 2011.
Defending Auto Club 400 champ Brad Keselowski, who enters Sunday ranked 11th in points, starts in 15th position in Fontana.
Fox will televise Sunday’s Auto Club 400 beginning at 3 p.m., with full race coverage starting at 3:30 p.m., with Mike Joy on play-by-play plus analysts Jeff Gordon, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds.
Auto Club 400 starting lineup
| Position | Driver | Make | Speed |
| 1 | Austin Dillon | Chevrolet | 188.482 |
| 2 | Kevin Harvick | Chevrolet | 188.329 |
| 3 | Denny Hamlin | Toyota | 187.637 |
| 4 | Ryan Newman | Chevrolet | 187.276 |
| 5 | Carl Edwards | Toyota | 187.222 |
| 6 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | 187.212 |
| 7 | Trevor Bayne | Ford | 186.916 |
| 8 | Chase Elliott | Chevrolet | 186.795 |
| 9 | Joey Logano | Ford | 186.557 |
| 10 | Jamie McMurray | Chevrolet | 186.345 |
| 11 | A.J. Allmendinger | Chevrolet | 185.687 |
| 12 | Kasey Kahne | Chevrolet | --- |
| 13 | Paul Menard | Chevrolet | 187.495 |
| 14 | Ryan Blaney | Ford | 187.480 |
| 15 | Brad Keselowski | Ford | 187.232 |
| 16 | Chris Buescher | Ford | 187.154 |
| 17 | Martin Truex, Jr. | Toyota | 187.028 |
| 18 | Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. | Ford | 186.528 |
| 19 | Jimmie Johnson | Chevrolet | 186.297 |
| 20 | Matt Kenseth | Toyota | 186.268 |
| 21 | Brian Scott | Ford | 186.176 |
| 22 | Greg Biffle | Ford | 186.075 |
| 23 | Casey Mears | Chevrolet | 185.773 |
| 24 | Brian Vickers | Chevrolet | 185.581 |
| 25 | Aric Almirola | Ford | 186.398 |
| 26 | Kurt Busch | Chevrolet | 186.095 |
| 27 | Dale Earnhardt, Jr. | Chevrolet | 186.080 |
| 28 | Regan Smith | Chevrolet | 185.696 |
| 29 | Clint Bowyer | Chevrolet | 185.639 |
| 30 | Michael McDowell | Chevrolet | 185.486 |
| 31 | Danica Patrick | Chevrolet | 185.099 |
| 32 | Kyle Larson | Chevrolet | 184.990 |
| 33 | Matt DiBenedetto | Toyota | 184.611 |
| 34 | Landon Cassill | Ford | 184.186 |
| 35 | David Ragan | Toyota | 183.052 |
| 36 | Cole Whitt | Chevrolet | 182.348 |
| 37 | Josh Wise | Chevrolet | 181.951 |
| 38 | Michael Annett | Chevrolet | 180.610 |
| 39 | Jeffrey Earnhardt | Ford | 180.415 |
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