Pole Report: Nationwide Series Feed the Children 300 at Kentucky Speedway

The NASCAR Nationwide Series revs its engines tonight for the second race of the weekend at Kentucky Speedway. On the heels of Thursday night’s victory for Ty Dillon, RCR’s Austin Dillon looks to return to victory lane in the Bluegrass State. The elder brother swept the track in 2012 earning wins in June and September. Dillon starts from the pole tonight, qualifying with a speed of 175.758 mph. This is Dillon’s fifth pole of the season and third at Kentucky Speedway.

Friday night’s race is slated to start at 7:30 with the green flag at 7:46. The telecast will air on ESPN.

Here's the full starting grid:

1. Austin Dillon
2. Travis Pastrana
3. Sam Hornish Jr.
4. Trevor Bayne
5. Kyle Busch
6. Elliott Sadler
7. Justin Allgaier
8. Matt Crafton
9. Cole Whitt
10. Alex Bowman
11. Brian Vickers
12. Parker Kligerman
13. Michael Annett
14. Regan Smith
15. Brian Scott
16. Brad Sweet
17. Kevin Swindell
18. Nelson Piquet Jr.
19. Brad Keselowski
20. Johanna Long
21. Kyle Larson
22. Joe Nemechek
23. Jamie Dick
24. Mike Bliss
25. Landon Cassill
26. Jeff Green
27. Mike Wallace
28. Reed Sorenson
29. Ken Butler
30. Blake Koch
31. JJ Yeley
32. Joey Gase
33. Bryan Silas
34. Harrison Rhodes
35. Carl Long
36. Derrike Cope
37. Josh Wise
38. Morgan Shepherd
39. Jeremy Clements
40. Eric McClure

Qualifying Notes:

Jeremy Clements crashed coming out of Turn 2 during his qualifying run making hard contact with the outside wall.  Clements was locked in to the field and will have to go to a backup car and start from the back.

Eric McClure did not make a qualifying run but was locked into the field.

DNQ: Dexter Stacey  - During his warm-up lap Stacy spun in Turn 3 but was allowed to start his qualifying run from scratch as he hadn't yet taken the green flag. Stacey was tracking to be the slowest of the qualifiers up to that point when he lost the car on his second qualifying lap and hit the wall ending his chances at making the race.