NXS: Joe Gibbs Racing Sweeps Top Three as Kyle Busch Scores Heads Up Georgia 250 Pole

They swept each of the three practices yesterday, and the speed carried over to today as Joe Gibbs Racing swept the top three spots in qualifying for the Heads Up Georgia 250 pole.

Kyle Busch will lead the field to the green flag after posting a time of 29.887 seconds during the final five-minute round of knock-out qualifying. Busch is hoping to score a win today as Atlanta Motor Speedway is one of three tracks that he has yet to win at. Notably, Busch posted the quickest speed for the Sprint Cup Series qualifying, but was DQ’d as a result of an issue.

“Can’t say enough about Joe Gibbs Racing,” Busch said on Saturday morning. “They gave me a fast car. Just need to go out there and have a clean race.”

Erik Jones, whom led a pair of practice sessions, still start second on the front row alongside Busch. Jones is running the full XFINITY schedule for the first time this year after winning the Camping World Truck Series Championship last year.

“We have a fast Toyota Camry,” Jones said. “I thought we’d have a shot at the pole, and we did but Kyle edged us out. Looking forward to the race as we have a quick car. All the JGR Camrys are fast so it should be a good battle between the teammates.”

Daniel Suarez will start third to complete the JGR top-three sweep, followed by Kyle Larson and Brennan Poole.

Ty Dillon will start sixth, followed by Brad Keselowski, Ryan Sieg, Brendan Gaughan and Kevin Harvick.

The XFINITY Series will take the green flag for their race at 1:30 pm EST.

UNOFFICIAL QUALIFYING RESULTS

RNK	DRIVER	SPEED	TIME	BEHIND
1	^#18 Kyle Busch	185.499	29.887	0.000
2	^#20 Erik Jones	185.078	29.955	0.068
3	^#19 Daniel Suarez	185.022	29.964	0.077
4	^#42 Kyle Larson	184.689	30.018	0.131
5	^#48 Brennan Poole	183.333	30.240	0.353
6	^#3 Ty Dillon	183.200	30.262	0.375
7	^#22 Brad Keselowski	182.904	30.311	0.424
8	^#39 Ryan Sieg	182.735	30.339	0.452
9	^#62 Brendan Gaughan	182.717	30.342	0.455
10	^#88 Kevin Harvick	182.585	30.364	0.477
11	^#2 Paul Menard	182.147	30.437	0.550
12	^#7 Justin Allgaier	181.794	30.496	0.609
13	^#11 Blake Koch	182.320	30.408	0.521
14	^#51 Jeremy Clements	182.284	30.414	0.527
15	^#43 Jeb Burton	182.003	30.461	0.574
16	^#1 Elliott Sadler	181.967	30.467	0.580
17	^#16 Ryan Reed	181.699	30.512	0.625
18	^#6 Darrell Wallace Jr.	181.580	30.532	0.645
19	^#33 Brandon Jones	180.170	30.771	0.884
20	^#28 Dakoda Armstrong	179.012	30.970	1.083
21	^#1 Ryan Preece	178.178	31.115	1.228
22	^#14 J.J. Yeley	177.898	31.164	1.277
23	^#24 Corey LaJoie	177.812	31.179	1.292
24	^#4 Ross Chastain	0.000	0.000	29.887
25	^#97 Harrison Rhodes	178.023	31.142	1.255
26	^#0 Garrett Smithley	177.858	31.171	1.284
27	^#7 Ray Black Jr.	177.573	31.221	1.334
28	^#44 David Starr	176.420	31.425	1.538
29	^#78 B.J. McLeod	175.872	31.523	1.636
30	^#40 Carl Long	175.510	31.588	1.701
31	^#10 Jeff Green	175.083	31.665	1.778
32	^#90 Mario Gosselin	173.239	32.002	2.115
33	^#52 Joey Gase	172.131	32.208	2.321
34	^#70 Derrike Cope	171.907	32.250	2.363
35	^#99 Todd Peck	169.515	32.705	2.818
36	^#74 Mike Harmon	169.138	32.778	2.891
37	^#15 Cody Ware	166.372	33.323	3.436
38	^#13 Josh Reaume	165.542	33.490	3.603
39	^#89 Morgan Shepherd	164.559	33.690	3.803
40	^#25 Chris Cockrum	0.000	0.000	29.887