Joe Gibbs Racing made another big statement in qualifying at Kansas Speedway Friday. The dominant Sprint Cup team this season, JGR swept the top three spots for the second race in the round of 12 of the Chase. Matt Kenseth will start on the pole after his lap of 192.089 mph, Kyle Busch will start alongside him and Carl Edwards will start right behind them in third. Throw in Martin Truex Jr., whose Furniture Row team has an alliance with the Gibbs boys, and there will be quite a Toyota presence leading the field to the green flag Sunday. "Our cars are pretty fast this weekend but anything could happen, as we saw last weekend," said Kenseth, who won at Kansas the last time he sat on the pole in 2013. "We have to go 400 miles Sunday. Hopefully we can stay up front and be in the mix." Most of the Chase contenders were in the mix in the final round of qualifying. Joey Logano will try to win the Kansas race for the third straight time for the sixth spot, while Denny Hamlin gave JGR another strong qualifying effort with seventh. Brad Keselowski will start eighth, Kevin Harvick will start 11th and Austin Dillon will roll off in 12th. The winner last week, Jimmie Johnson, struggled with a tight car in qualifying and will start 21st on Sunday. Chase Elliott will start 13th and Kurt Busch will start 15th as they try to take the pressure off the crapshoot known as Talladega by advancing in the Chase with a win. Edwards posted the fourth-fastest lap with about 2 minutes left in the second round, then had a lap of 191.015 in the third round.
